Feb 26, 2009

A Red Reading Room

"No weapons", he said.
I believed him.
I was a fool.

"We're gentlemen", he said.
I agreed.
He wasn't one.
(Don't believe that doctor.)

"By the ledge".
"Doesn't the spray make it slippery?".
He smiled and shook his head.

There I was, defenceless, staring into a Smith and Wesson.
"Jump", said Sherlock Holmes to me.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was awesome. Now we know what really happened at Richenbach.

J Ramanand said...

Thanks Rohit.