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Ode #2 To A Devil With A Little Bit Of Angel Dust
“She’s a devil with a little bit of angel dust” –The Dropkick Murphys

Kenneth DiMaggio

Leaving the safety of art
school for the uncertainty
of being an artist you
photographed the detritus
along the Williamsburg
Bridge:

the empty syringes &
burned spoons to cook heroin
at the Manhattan entrance

the empty flasks of vodka
& Bourbon before the exit
to Brooklyn

And on the rusting metal
in between:

a wilting wedding bouquet
that you rescued and vased
in an empty wine bottle on
the fire escape where you
were living “for now” in
the East Village and where

—rust

can sometimes blossom

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