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Therapy

Kenneth DiMaggio

Throwing your old man’s
cop revolver bullets
to see if they would explode
like firecrackers sentenced you
to group therapy for delinquents
only hanging until
they could hot wire
a way out of this cinder block
& barbed wire galaxy
where everything from the car wash
to the pool hall looked like a prison
or a fallout shelter

But before these boys became atomic

There were still memory-snaps
that the female shrink
helped us to surface and yours
of a kitchen filled with
women that you were still too small
to be a threat in
but old enough
to sense how their language
fortressed but also
fed them
unlike the words
that you would soon
muscle into
alone
but as a man

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