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Memoirs Of Death Row, Or, What Does It Mean To Be Human? (#4)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Toll booth ahead
and for a joke some
bored state worker
put a plastic skull with
flashing eye sockets
behind the bullet-
proof glass

Happy Halloween
and Merry Christmas

But this year
Death is too busy
to come wrapped
in shiny red wrapping
paper or as a bagful
of candy

As a teacher
I know that
I only have
sixty seconds
or less
to get your attention

I hope that
the mobile morgues
got yours
as they did mine

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