The good guys
don’t always win.
Sometimes
the good guys are unrecognizable
and the villains are nowhere to be named.

Sometimes the battle
is against nature
and there is nothing to be punched.
Sometimes
evil is not part of the equation.

The bad guys don’t always lose
– or win.
Sometimes they don’t show up.

And sometimes
a beautiful day
is wrecked by an elk
who didn’t know
where she was supposed to stand.

Not all crimes
involve criminals

and the heroes
don’t show up.