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Song #2 for Baphomet

Kenneth DiMaggio

Hand-painting a red
lop-sided pentagram
on the back of my new
pleather motorcycle
jacket
—I was ready to walk
the shopping mall
and scare suburban
America

Yelling something about
Baudelaire or Black
Sabbath as the security
guard from Sudan or
Somalia escorted me out

Beelzebub Nietzsche
Lilith and Countess
Elizabeth Bathory

—heroes & heroines
for the young pimpled
poet who just couldn’t
get laid

Unlike the Catholic
& Baptist girls I could
never marry or bed

I could free my arms
and legs high and wide
enough

unlike the man
nailed to the tiny
gold crosses
around their necks

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