29 Aug 2005, 5:02am
Writing
by David


Professor Henry Jarrod’s House of Wax

Broken into as if some crime has

occurred, and now we’re calling in

Peter Falk to do the detective work.

What happened here? Is the

killer in the kitchen, or in the foyer

clutching an envelope? The back

steps lead down to a basement

where the body is. Tell-tale signs:

the coat, the tired off-focus

glass eye. Was there anything

wrong here? What made that drawer

sound like that, was it the rain?

Yet its beams, lesions, and hard-

wood command respect, police cars

brake here, protect these normal

citizens that we begin to suspect

it of. They go into the chalk.

MCMXLVIII, and everyone hates

everything. The girls go missing;

it’s a quiet walk up a staircase

to find God. Their pictures in the

attic were covered in dust, a flapping

of termites. Can we find that mirror

where we were standing?