A New Clue - Original Draft

Cover

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a new clue

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All he needed was to find a new clue.
If he found a new clue, he would know what to do.

If he knew what to do, he'd like find two.
For clues come together, like a pair of new shoes.

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He had retraced his sketches and studied the files,
Rewritten his theories and gone through the piles

Of the evidence shown to god only known,
And retraced his steps, as it stretched on for miles.

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He had looked high and low in all of the rooms,
He had searched every corner in all of the tombs,

for in this case, he had searched every space,
If he found a new clue, he'd know what to do.

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He looked and he looked under beds and in nooks,
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he questioned the maids, he questioned the cooks,
It was already over, when he spoke to the chauffeur,
Who told him new clues were found only in books.

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So tome after tome, that the library loaned,
And the books that he had, that he already owned,
Were searched from their covers all the way through,

If he found a new clue, he'd know what to do.

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He changed all the letters in the lines that he found,

He checked all the colors for each key that he wound,
He doubled the meaning of each seasonal greeting,
And found that the diction of each word was sound.

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He stayed up all night and studied the maps,
He laid out the floorplans and measured the gaps,

And his directory was a trajectory
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Nothing short of a full mental lapse.

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A man obsessed, and cuckoo too,
They would say as he would wander through,

The medicine is not yet evident,
When he found a new clue, he'd know what to do.

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And having read this over so many times,
Having scoured each of the lines,
Have you exhausted your search,
Have you seen all the signs?

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Or is there perhaps something new,
Something overlooked but now in view,
Have you really found it? Could it finally be true?
If it's a new clue, you know what to do.