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Don’t Stop Believing (#1)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Loner in the landscape
where every scarred and striped
and bruise-collared male
bonded on ball teams
that played for and drank
at bars with exotic names like Roma
or Vesuvius and where middle-aged
bee-hive haired divorcees
made a trophy of every punk’s
virginity but yours
--oh loner

listening to the music
that would never
get juke-boxed at
the Knights of Columbus
but still you were linked
to that world of red white
& bloodied America
with a grim-reaper hooded
saint laminated in a scapular
around your neck and while
you learned to spit like Sid Vicious
you would also learn
to suffer like a saint
because what were
true punks
but saints
who rebelled
through faith

and what were
true saints
but punks
who finally learned
how to love

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