Penned by Commissioner Regina Smithson
and City Attorney, Roger Horner

T'was four nights before
Ricky Watson retired,

The Brentwood Police Chief
so widely admired.

All the commissioners were snug in their chairs
When Commissioner Dunn
caught the staff unawares.

She said "Where is the mural
that was up on that wall?"
The room grew so silent,
you could hear a pin fall.

Perplexion was all over Mike Walker's face.
He had no response
for the wall's big blank space.

With no staff or board member having a clue,
We called in the Chief
of our Finest in Blue.

Tuesday's staff meeting started
With the case in full swing,
But not one staff member
remembered a thing.

“Think, Carson! Think, Roger!
Think, Linda!” blared Mike.
“Think Dobson and Worsham
and Harris alike!

Get me that mural and get it here fast!
Find it before
one more minute has passed!”

Then our "Wonderful Debbie"
Bless her dear little heart,
Searched through the archives
for a trace of the art.

In April of '10 the
film showed it there,
But by May it had vanished,
disappeared in thin air!

After hours of effort,
it all came to light.
That mural was hiding
Right out in plain sight!

It was not in the dumpster, it was not in a hall.
It was mocking us all
on the opposite wall.

T'was Kirk to the rescue,
the mural he found
It was hanging in the chamber,
all safe and sound.

No thief apprehended, no scandal exposed
But the case of the vanishing
mural is closed.

It wasn’t the firemen who found it,
we note,
Or Chief Lane would come out
of retirement to gloat.

We laughed at this news just as soon as we read it.
Element'ry, my dear Watson,
But, we can’t give you credit.

So just this one time
you did not pass the test
But you leave a department
That’s ahead of the rest.

And now Lisa gains what the rest of us lose
You'll sail off in the sunset
on cruise after cruise.

Chief Watson, we thank you
for all that you’ve done.
You leave here knowing
BPD‟s number one!

And we bet you’ll exclaim
In your home oh so rural
“I don’t give a flip ‘bout that blankety-blank mural?!?”