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The War

Kenneth DiMaggio

“Okay tough guys”
the two shrinks challenged
the posse of punks
they were supposed
to civilize

“Let’s continue group therapy
in the game room”

—where there were
plastic guns that shot
rubber octopus-tipped darts

And in this war of all against all
—doctors of psychiatry
and delinquents fatally free falling
towards the Marine Corps
engaged in a battle
that made no sense
except to make you laugh

—a pointless fight
unless to show
how everybody got targeted
in a war

—a war with no victors or losers
just laughter at all the chaos
and absurdity

And finally a peace
where we saw
how we could still be men
after we put down our guns

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