Letter: Mala mutatio

Published 10:00 am Tuesday, October 22, 2019

To the Editor:

Skippy was a lady

in the valley of the strange.

There was something very shady

in her home there on the range.

A macabre grotesquerie,

specific and precise.

“Who,” would be the query,

by what reason or device?

Specific organs taken?

No blood at scene was found?

You’re sure you’re not mistaken?

No tracks upon the ground?

All sorts of holy creatures

sacrificed by whom?

So many common features,

these crimes of fear and doom.

By thousands we can count them.

No one has yet been caught.

Do anything but doubt them.

The answer we have naught.

Calvin Weaver

Boise