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Don’t Stop Believing (#2)

Kenneth DiMaggio

The playground
where you smoked
your first cigarettes
and saw a ghost-face
fiend with a needle
dangling from an arm
after an overdose
are the swings
from which a generation
about to disintegrate at thirty
dangle after an
earlier keg party
which failed to erase
the dishonorable
discharge or the
divorce from a marriage
that still abuses

From lives
slated for greatness
(like moving out
of your parents’ basement)
Sal & Frankie
who flank Marie
(who dreams about
owning her own
dog grooming business)
can at least still
any rippling
from their swings
keeping awake
the baby she is holding
while with gentle
shh-ing
Marie briefly stops
a disintegration

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