Thursday, July 2, 2026

Conflicted by stars__ By Merritt Waldon


A girl I know 

Has a pig she swears 

Goes plum hay wire 

When Venus is too close to the Earth 


& So humans might

Be in similar temperaments

If they don’t forget 

They too are

Animals

Horny in love

Conflicted by stars




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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