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Memoirs Of Death Row, Or, What Does It Mean To Be Human? (#3)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Digital highway
Late for work
but never the computerized
billboards displaying missing
kids like the ones I am about
to teach

Oh the great works of literature
But where is the mad jealousy
or evil of an Othello or Iago?

Instead everyone is a stranger
willing to stab you for no other
reason than to get ahead of you
in the line at the convenience
store

Gasoline Lottery Tickets (and
if you ask)
Pornography behind the counter

And finally a camouflage
baseball cap
and above its visor
a patch of an eagle
claw-clutching
an assault rifle

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