Saturday, December 20, 2025

Interrogated being__ By Merritt Waldon


Interrogated thoughts pop out

Becoming pop noise like

Vending and slot machines

Interrogated feelings flood

Out through pores hungry

For comfort jettisoned in a sea

If rage

Interrogated longings

Worship the idol of her eyes

Starry and penetrating

To the core

Of this interrogated being







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.

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