The Ding Dong Box |The Brokenwood Mysteries | Love You to Death | Mystery Maniacs Podcast EP262

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📓 Show Notes: https://midsomermaniacs.transistor.fm/262

Mystery Maniacs Episode! In Podcast 262, a killer uses Russian poetry, barre chords and the pizza phone to throw us off the track. MC Mike Shepard!

The radiator is a ribcage, rusted and dry,

It clanks a rhythm for the Politburo ghosts.

I have eaten the rationed plum; it tasted of iron and salt.

Outside, the sky is the color of a wet wool coat,

Drying against the Siberian wind.

I am a nesting doll of grievances.

Crack me open—there is a smaller, sadder girl.

Crack her—there is a turnip, white and blind.

Crack the turnip—there is only the secret police,

Taking notes on the way I exhale.

The bread line is a black snake in the snow,

Moving with the glacial grace of a dying empire.

I wear my fur hat like a crown of thorns,

Muffled against the gossip of the sparrows—

Are they informers? Their eyes are too bright.

The moon is a Sputnik, a cold, mechanical eye,

Beeping its indifference to my unwashed borscht bowl.

I lay my head in the oven, but the gas is out—

A five-year plan for silence,

And I am ahead of schedule.

My poems are hidden in loaves of black bread,

The censor is sniffing my laundry for spite.

I’d tell you the secrets that live in my head,

But the radiator is recording tonight.

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