Poems
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Law and Order
By Jennifer ComptonHe came up behind me on the street
and held a knife to my bare throat.
My bag was tucked under my arm
but I loosed my grip and let him -
Testimony
By Kate MiddletonNo, I don't know how to tell it right,
you see I was never educated, not like him, the little vermin
(now you call him angel, victim, interchangeably;
but he's just a boy-a boy with books and a greedy -
Crime
By Claire GaskinThe stone of self worth
I thought I was spirit and didn't matter
A fall and a view both sides
on the ridge of wiped memory -
The numbers
By Justin LoweBefore I was ever old enough
to add them up
I had glimpsed the numbers
tiny blue spiders -
Eugenia Solo
By A. Frances JohnsonSikka, Flores, January 1999
Eugenia Solo died in 1857.
The Catholics told her: -
Bound for Botany Bay
By Alan Wearne(after Blue Murder)
for Daniel Willis
Here fellow Aussies, good ‘n’ ready: the gospel -
Day Release
By Jennifer MaidenStrangely, what recurred for this topic at first
was just one image : a hot bush road
in daylight, an old man and a young
waiting outside the prison gate together -
Police Informer’s Last Rites
By Ian C. SmithHe imagined eyes watching him.
Through the scarred blind he looked about
the concrete yard, saw nothing different.
The exposed front door was the only -
Beyond Omerta
By Ian McBryde"You can feel the cold metal of the gun against
your skin. You can almost hear your heartbeat.
You're alive, really alive."
- Sam Giancana, Chicago, 1938 -
Blak-out
By Brenda SaundersSista' girl need money to get home Native title
case Big time! she raps edgy
Some story -
The Dreamworld Murders
By Jaya SavigeI
If you like
I will take you to him
The moment I saw -
Gone today, here tomorrow
By Chris EdwardsI'm a poet of various styles
that can be any length and my age has no limit
and I'd like to talk to you today about crime
schemes and whether or not they cause