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Monday, 17 January 2022

Ken Frane: A Poem

I was going to write a poem earlier on today

but the muse buggered off, went away.

I can’t claim that it’s come back but if you start something

you should try and finish it or so the smart money do say.

I walked 5.1 miles yesterday.

On a pilgrimage to see where Ken Frane lives.

I’ve placed him in the twilight zone between Fidlas Rd and Fidlas Avenue

Llanishen

After 34 years in Cardiff, I’d never walked up that road before.

“The down at heel, dishevelled gumshoe never quite solves the mysteries to anybody's satisfaction. He is an example of the anti-detective novels which originated in Italy in 1929. It led to a type of crime fiction without certainty of solution. If you like your crime cozy with an element of caper and you don't really care 'Who Dunnit?' then this is the short story for you.” read the billboard.

His face in side profile with a Homburg hat.

“Has a modern Dick Tracey feel to it” said one of the reviews.

The writer whose vehicle is a shark and shanks’s pony

will be celebrating 10 years a blogger on Wednesday 19th January

and when he started in 2012 Ken Frane wasn’t even a glint in the author’s eye

but by and by he appeared from the gloom and the fog of the subconscious.

Ken Frane is an everyman, he means well but is clumsy and accident prone.

His second in command Terry Heston fares little better.

One day the crime fighting duo will have their own blue plaque

like Holmes & Watson.

  

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