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American Autobiography, Or, Nostalgia For A Time That Never Was (#3)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Something about how you
should eat the crusts of your
radioactive white pre-sliced
bread because the starving
people of India couldn’t

(Reminder: try not to remember
that next time I see my doctor
who is from Mumbai or Delhi)

Hungry?

Never for the sugar oil
or poppy I consumed while
using my switchblade to
deface another chapter of
U.S. History taught to me
at Nathan Hale School in
Sinkhole-ville Connecticut

Never on the quiz was
Nicaragua or Kuwait or
someplace kids like me
were later supposed to
invade

(Luckily I said yes to drugs
and no to any flag except
the one that was all black)

Thalidomide and Napalm

I just don’t remember
the Peanut butter & Jelly

as I walk past another homeless
American trying to skin-pop
a piece of Afghanistan

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