They were in the room together for a meeting
of the West Side Housing Coalition to buy turkeys for people
who couldn’t afford them:
Lorna who’d worked for CVS 31 years.
Becky, a woman who actually wore aprons.
Bill, 54, whose name was Roger not William
Elijah, born in Brooklyn and a league soccer champion
Ally a non-binary person of many colors.
Larry, a union organizer from the Bronx and still there.
Maria, an Ecuadorian from Quito who cleaned houses and painted.
HiLi a Chinese scholar of calligraphy.
Their ninth member, Audrey, unlikely participant in raising
money for turkeys, was murdered with a knife in the kitchen
of Lorna’s small Upper West Side apartment,
where the meeting was held. Who Killed Her and Why?
Hi-Li with the calligraphy pen…