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American Autobiography, or, Nostalgia for a Time That Never Was (#1)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Blow out your candles

But Mom they’re nuclear
missiles

Why is my birthday cake
orbiting
in outer space?

Let’s fast forward
the film please

I don’t feel like
reminiscing
when I was doing
drugs while living
on unemployment

Things to do
before I die:

Get rich
Go to war
Marry so I
can have a family
to bring to Disneyland
Go to a nursing home
where the nurses put
balloons on the handles
of your wheelchair
like they did for my mother

Why does this anonymous
skull in orbit over this
planet look so familiar?

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