after Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock,1951)

Amateur Athlete,
Bête Noire
Charmer,
Double Dares
Exchanged:
Funhouse
Grue,
Home
Invasion
Jollies;
Killer
Looks.
Murderers?
No, Never!
Only
Polite
Quirky
Repartee,
Strap-hanging
Twins
Until . . .
Victim #1
Wasted:
Xanthippe —
Yours truly,
Zippo-less.

ROXANNE HOFFMAN runs the small literary press Poets Wear Prada with Jack Cooper. Her elegiac poem “In Loving Memory,” illustrated by Edward Odwitt, was released as a chapbook in 2011. Their second collaboration, The Little Entomologist, was published in 2018