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Downfall

Kenneth DiMaggio

The future can only be written
in the prose scavenged
from junk mail fliers

Instead of going up
crimes are now going
two for a dollar

What happened
to my neighbors

they never leave
their expensive homes

they dissolve like old laboratory
specimens in sealed jars
of formaldehyde

Maybe if you cut out
a piece of the cosmos
and put it in a poem

you can use it
like an anesthesia
and not feel the pain
of being alone

Is that what my other neighbor did
when he cut out his painkiller
from the flesh of a human

Do you take sugar
or cocaine in your fast food American
Dream or do you just
take it black like the evil
kidnapping the innocence
from its crib

Call out��call out
both the Evangelist
and the aircraft carrier

the highway��Is quickly disappearing
behind the stolen car
driven by the fleeing
but unknown killer

who had no intention
of murder this morning
when he looked at his world
through the eyes of rebellion

he just did not know that
what begins in the heart

soon coagulates

into a moral abyss



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