{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Mystery Maniacs","title":"The Ding Dong Box  |The Brokenwood Mysteries | Love You to Death | Mystery Maniacs Podcast EP262","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5f4b50df\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3432,"description":"🎙️ Episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5f4b50df\n📓 Show Notes: https://midsomermaniacs.transistor.fm/262\n\nMystery 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!\n\nShow Notes\nGiant Door\n\n\nThe Concrete Matryoshka By Svelana Plotze \nThe radiator is a ribcage, rusted and dry,\nIt clanks a rhythm for the Politburo ghosts.\nI have eaten the rationed plum; it tasted of iron and salt.\nOutside, the sky is the color of a wet wool coat,\nDrying against the Siberian wind.\n\nI am a nesting doll of grievances.\nCrack me open—there is a smaller, sadder girl.\nCrack her—there is a turnip, white and blind.\nCrack the turnip—there is only the secret police,\nTaking notes on the way I exhale.\n\nThe bread line is a black snake in the snow,\nMoving with the glacial grace of a dying empire.\nI wear my fur hat like a crown of thorns,\nMuffled against the gossip of the sparrows—\nAre they informers? Their eyes are too bright.\n\nThe moon is a Sputnik, a cold, mechanical eye,\nBeeping its indifference to my unwashed borscht bowl.\nI lay my head in the oven, but the gas is out—\nA five-year plan for silence,\nAnd I am ahead of schedule.\n\nMy poems are hidden in loaves of black bread,\nThe censor is sniffing my laundry for spite.\nI’d tell you the secrets that live in my head,\nBut the radiator is recording tonight.\n\nMark's Mystery Novels: I'm launching two cozy mystery series this spring! Subscribe to my author newsletter at https://markbellauthor.substack.com/ to get free preview chapters. Patreon opens this week. \n\nThanks again for listening!\n \nMark & Sarah\n\n-----------------------------------\nUpcoming Tentative  Schedule\nApril 1 - April Newsletter \nApril 6 - Brokenwood S10E05 - “The House of Screams”\nWeek of April 6 - Brokenwoon S12E01 Mini - They’re Out There Alright\n\n------------------------------------\nNEWSLETTER: Keep up with all things Mystery Maniac through our newsletter!\n\nSignup here for free:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ezzyFsygZi9lM6fC7YyPeZC41Jv3ji_wk952aABGGIg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMxNjgvMTY1OTQ2/MDY2OC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}