On the Death of Det. Sgt. Monica Mosely

Peter Mladinic: On the Death of Det. Sgt. Monica Mosely

On the Death of Det. Sgt. Monica Mosley

by Pete Mladinic

She was Black, and only 51,

and had served Cumberland County.

She was doing the world some good.

Some thugs broke into her home.

The only way I can describe them,

thugs, low-life’s, likely addicts, thieves.

Please don’t hand me that malarkey

people aren’t bad, it’s the things they do.

For the murderers to be caught, tried

and executed wouldn’t bring her back.

The executed wouldn’t happen.

So you killed a cop. So we don’t murder

people who murder people,

who murdered this person. We

don’t hate the murderer. We hate

the heinous act. Okay, that’s your right.

As for me, I hope the thugs go to prison

and get fucked up the ass, and feel

excruciating pain. Her body’s

in a funeral home. Think of the pain

her loved ones feel, and will feel

at the viewing. And please don’t hand me

that malarkey thug is racist.

If you feel it is, it is. This police officer

was murdered. Justice needs to happen

so the murderers aren’t out in five years,

free to kill another cop, another child.

Peter Mladinic’s fifth book of poems, Voices from the Past, is available from Better Than Starbucks Publications.

An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States.

Cindy Rosmus originally hails from the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest city on the planet.” She talks like Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody from Saturday Night Fever. Her noir/horror/bizarro stories have been published in the coolest places, such as Shotgun Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The Rye Whiskey Review, Under the Bleachers, and Rock and a Hard Place. She is the editor/art director of Yellow Mama. She’s published seven collections of short stories. Cindy is a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal rights advocate. She has recently branched out into photo illustration.