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Manacled Children: Poetry of Jeffrey Merk
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 301 min read
The Mechanical Clock
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 291 min read
Dirk the Dragonslayer
A Dagger in ‘The Grinch Who Stole Christmas’ Wrapping paper; Bird Seed from Zeller’s Pet Department, and Chunk Light Tuna by can, Are...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 291 min read
The Inhospitable World
‘We’ll just circle the block again waiting, For the first available parking-spot, For your doctors’ appointment, what are you Going to...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 261 min read
Guitar Piece No. 26 in C Major
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 251 min read
Deflover RX
Imagine a goddess, with sunglasses, To stand in space with the stars above; The Empire State Building has a poster.  Each...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 243 min read
The Changeling
A suitably dressed man and his wife passed by the dumpsters at the end of the lane. The man said, ‘Wait, a taxi is coming.’ ‘Of course,...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 191 min read
The Eroded Dandelion Patch
No worms break the surface from the sidewalk, To the bottom of this red-brick wall, and you’ll find, On closer examination, that the...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 171 min read
Quiznos Back-alley
Hey fam!  The Princess lies down this dark stair, Past the entrance to Underground Parking, Goldilocks herself wants it bad, so bad...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 151 min read
The Seabed
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 151 min read
Prison Guards
We should all kill ourselves; we still look at You.  No matter how high we fly, we like to worship You, and kiss your shiny black...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 141 min read
Malice from Moon 5
Hang in the sky, hang in the sky! While your pale lids tremble and I, Your Executioner, will light A cigar not knowing the brand.  I...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 121 min read
The Inmates of Grey Sanitarium
Nine were normal, nine men doomed to die, but The last odd:  he used to laugh to himself, When he put the cap on toothpaste bottles, ...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 21 min read
Ceremonial Knife
My Western Civ teach used to throw parties, For the students, help them break the windows With rocks, there was a secret door to...
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Darkling Thrushes
Jan 11 min read
The Citadel of Skin
Her perfume, her slinky dress, and her voice, Draw me in, but less the things she says: she’s Not a woman of many words, not for me, ...
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Darkling Thrushes
Dec 30, 20241 min read
Salem, Mass.
He became happy and clutched his heart, Feared the looming scaffolds above, He broke into a sweat, began to leaf Through his Bible...
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Darkling Thrushes
Dec 28, 20241 min read
Spelunker's Warning
Whether I’m bright or dull, sharp or broken, I will always be a sinner, I walked Down onyx steps, I slipped past sleeping guards, To...
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Darkling Thrushes
Dec 27, 20241 min read
Heliocentric Model
Crossing the tracks down by the waterway, When the lights changed from green to red. Making shadows shimmer under birch trees, She...
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Darkling Thrushes
Dec 26, 20241 min read
Baby Grand
Back when I was six, I got a drum set, Then, I moved on to guitar and baby grand; As a teen, I loved music equally with life, ...
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Darkling Thrushes
Dec 26, 20241 min read
Honestly, Doctor
I told my ratty psychiatrist that I Spent last week in the back lane trying To behead people, and then found a can Of pop impaled on a...
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Darkling Thrushes
Dec 25, 20241 min read
Three Emails
This cradle for my sorrows in wind rocks, No hand catches her, no eyes would want to see; The Abomination that sleeps fitfully within, ...
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