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The Briar Pipe

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Mysteries in small and convenient packages litter remote cabins,
where phone lines come pre-packaged in guillotines,
where people walk onto the stage with pre-fabricated character sheets
while they prepare for their big audition,
where giants walk on tiny people and get disgruntled when the ants bicker,
where clues seem to be outlined in neon lights,
yet were not visible in the minds of the innocent, or even the guilty,
where everything is significant, even the trivial,
where cars that were doomed to fail,
with their suicidal tires and their weeping gas lines,
try to piece together how the others got the best of them yet again,
where two plus two takes a predefined time allotment to calculate,
where no man is an island while the others have oars and leaky boats,
where the doorknob is given an unexplained significance,
where death accompanies not the inhabitants,
but the ignorant harbingers of justice,
these are the places where knowledge is built from the ground up,
and knocked the hell back down again.
These are the places where reality fades away.
I'll admit, this poem was partially inspired by Case Closed. It is not a fan-poem, because I also know that a lot of these things carry across the genre.
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Chezzy-Am's avatar
I'll admit that I can't critique, because I wasn't able to understand this poem. You might need to explain this poem for me :(