I was on a case,
hired to tail a skirt
wearing a trench coat
and a black, wide-brimmed felt hat.
Given a snapshot
to identify her.
Obviously,
an out-of-towner,
she was giving the once-over to a map
of Los Angeles.
I assumed
it was Los Angeles.
Assumption
has led me to trouble
more times than I care to remember.
I once assumed a hophead wasn’t packing.
He pulled a gat and pumped my leg
with a couple of slugs.
I lay my peepers on her
from behind a newspaper.
She looked nervous.
A hack pulled up,
and she took the back seat.
I tailed it from two cars behind.
Just another day
as a private investigator:
gumshoe, shamus, flatfoot, bird dog,
that’s what I’m sometimes called
by people who like me.
Others, they’re not so polite.
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