jaundiced

with bitter taste
and jaundiced eye
the perpetrator
plans his lie
the story plays
the plot, it thickens
the murder
something out of Dickens
the policeman
takes the measure
of every townsperson
at his leisure
and by the time
the baddy is caught
at least two more murders
he has wrought
detective shows
are my addiction
and I'm glad they are
just works of fiction
otherwise who
would survive
the way those murderers
can connive
in Cabot Cove
or in Midsommer
the murder rate is
quite the bummer