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the four crows.

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we were a formidable team

my two sisters

one friend

and i

 an ad-hoc agency

fashioning ourselves

the finest of sleuths

solving crimes

righting wrongs

all around

our neighborhood

it was our job

our destiny

the four crows

walked the streets

the fields

the woods

went in old abandoned houses

from another time

looking for clues

to

crack puzzles

solve problems

imagined

and

created

as we

dreamed up

our cases

reading bits of discarded notes and lists

finding an empty pill bottle

 asking a neighbor

where his wife was

as we hadn’t seen her recently

 left a note

for a woman

who yelled at her adopted children

telling her she was too mean

we clearly

way overstepped our bounds

as detectives

sometimes

tend to do

all

in the pursuit of justice

 in an attempt

to right wrongs

to restore balance

to keep peace

protect people

in a community

that didn’t know

they needed us

or that we were on the case

always looking out for them

in the most secret of ways

plainclothes

and

undercover

as a

murder of four crows

all under the age of 8

—

“the case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!”
― donald j. sobol, encyclopedia brown, boy detective

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  3. Oh our sweet childhood and the terror that we caused. I liked your investigatory work -all in the name of justice 😊 K and her equally young cousin disappeared one afternoon at a family BBQ. My brother was a leader of Neighborhood Watch at the time. We thought the terrible 2 were in the bedroom playing, they were 6? Brother received a phone call from a neighbour saying, some children have been going round saying there has been a double murder…. We took terrible 2 when they got back home straight tot the Police Station..so they could have a bit of a lecture. Scared the **** out of them. Sorry went a little overboard. 😔

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  14. I can picture the formidable sisters and a friend, investigating. You told this so well, love the details and the fun way you told this. Kind of scary and serious stuff mixed in there, too. Just like a real crime story!

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