Child Cemetery: Poetry of Jeffrey Merk
I see you prostrate with a worm's pain,
Screaming, for the nurse’s help, which
You’ve taken advantage of it too long.
‘Should I call Security?’ he threatens.
A fade to muffled noises, and I am left
In pain and anger, to lament your fate,
Our fate in a dead-mans hospital:
Where tantrums meet hypocritical help.
This cradle for my sorrows in wind rocks, No hand catches her, no eyes would want to see; The Abomination that sleeps fitfully within, ...
What business is this? Let us see, for Your vested interests have blinded you: Like slobbering diseased Ogres, Who have taken up the...
My eyes in darkness lie, in a black cowl She has died at my hands, the hunchback cow, Never will the black stain on my shirt be...
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