Wannabe Mr. Rogers
answers all Detective Li’s questions
about the missing boy.
But there’s something off:
his cardigan sweater,
how he slurps the milk carton
out of a straw,
the way he smiles
as if he knows something she doesn’t.
“Why choose this line of work?”
he asks the detective as she packs up.
She hesitates.
“My brother went missing from a grocery store.”
He watches as Li gets in her car.
He remembers her as a girl with her brother.
He folds up the “wanted” milk carton
and puts it with the others.
