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Nostalgia For A Time That Never Was, Or, Scenes Beyond The Veterans Home & Hospital (#2)

Kenneth DiMaggio

If my life is broken
please don’t fix it

If you’re going to teach
us creative writing
please don’t try to
rehabilitate our addictions

Teaching your flashbacks
& traumas
may have paid
for the backyard patio

But after a summer
of barbecuing & drinking
with deans and fellow professors

I discovered how our critiques
of Capitalism and new Mercedes
every other year in our driveways
is what sends our young men
and women to war

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