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Poem from the Spaghetti Scrapbooks (Angie)

Kenneth DiMaggio

With Vito safe
from the law and into
the Marines our tenement
league football
team that for shared cultural
reasons was called “The Guinea Gang̵
was now short a monster as
well as a machine that could
break through any defense
& survive the shattering
that was the offence
from the housing project
Black kids who always steam-
rolled over our tabloid newspaper
padded leather jackets

And when Angie
wanted to join us--
“Why not! As your baby
sitter I always kicked your asses!̵

and if we thought
we would have to protect her
--who proved that she was
nobody’s girl
--fighting her own team-
mates for a ball which
she always fumbled & never
touch downed

but made every play & run
feel like a victory
that her own teammates
and their rivals
would secretly envy

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