Elementary

by Terry Klasek

If I live to be old in my bones,
	there’ll be nobody like Sherlock Holmes;
A master’s brain that lives for the problem’s sake,
	and couldn’t care less about a steak;
An eye keen to observe all that’s inept,
	and in deductions he’s usually correct;
His wants are little, his needs be few,
	but he’s loyal, courageous and true;
To his words, Amazing! say my lips and face,
	to which he pshaws saying, O commonplace;
Fools like me make these poems fine, 
	but only Holmes can solve the crime!


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