I hadn’t done an acrostic poem in a long time, so when I unearthed an old sketchbook with the beginnings of an acrostic page on it, I wondered if I still had the knack. So I spent the last hour filling the space between PASTE and BOARD, Putting images in the cards I’d drawn in 2023, and signing, dating and photo editing the page.

It rhymes, it scans metrically, but it is vague near-gibberish–OR it is the bare bones of an ingenious Murder Mystery that the reader is invited to concoct. Time will tell. 🙂

Paste Board

Panty-waisted son of Job

Add a crime–away we go

Solve a mystery–so far a

Traitor tater stole a Gar

El Segundo, take a Card