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American Autobiography, Or, Nostalgia For A Time That Never Was (#5)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Like blood diluting
back into a syringe
—memories of graduation
marriage and academic
success

Or maybe that was some-
one else’s narrative

Thankfully I can see
a musical like Hamilton
so that I can have some-
thing to add next time
there is a conversation

Just use your imagination
to hop that freight
going out West
(even if that train
is now a ghost)

So isn’t
the frontier

and the violence
that never
settled it

It’s just blood
bubbling back

from a vein
that has not yet
developed
an abscess

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