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this writing is in the collection book
Charred Remnants
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Charred Remnants, the 2008 Down in the Dirt collection book
BROOKLYN DOG DAYS

Mel Waldman

In the Waste Land of Brooklyn, during the dog days,
when the heat is seething but chilling to the psyche,
you’d better watch your back.

It’s Psycho Country, here&now. And even though
Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) won’t cut your
heart out while you

cleanse your body and soul (he’s dead, you see), some
innocent-looking psycho will, in the sprawling desert
of Brooklyn,

during the dog days, on the beach-where you’re spread eagle
beneath the omnipotent sun at Brighton or Manhattan Beach
or Coney Island

or in the streets of Flatbush or maybe, back home when you
look into the mirror and discover a strangely familiar face-
smiling sardonically

& a disembodied hand clutching a machete-cuts the stranger,
who is the enemy and, in fact,
you!



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