John, didn't think it you'd ever die
With that heart shielding everything
About you
How did that fucker misinterpret such a
Waste of a novel anyway
Shel Silverstein write better
Sweet John , how is it no one
Can accept Peace
When it's their work that kills
Us
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BROTHER M
Merritt Waldon is Southern Indiana poet who has been published in Road Dawgz, Sun Poetic Times,
The Brooklyn Rail, Be About It Zine, River Dog #1, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Americans & others anthology fourth edition, Crisis Chronicles, Cajun Mutt Press, Thye Rye Whiskey Review, and Fearless!.
At midnight Christmas night 2020, cajun mutt press released Oracles from a Strange Fire by Ron Whitehead & Merritt. He lives in Austin, Indiana.