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Poem from The Hartford Epic (#1)

Kenneth DiMaggio

3:30 a.m.
but a millennium
ago when the 12-or-13 year old
kid named Ezekiel
riding a Stingray
bicycle said he’d
be back with your
drugs but what’s
another century
or two in a car
on a street where every
other telephone pole
hangs a pair
of dirty sneakers
letting you know
this is the place
to score and every
other tenement front
porch is lined with tinsel
“Welcome Home” letters
for their Carlos or Tyrone
or Salvatore just back
from the war

And if the cop keeps
driving slowly be
only to eye-fuck
you but never stop
--the three-legged
pit bull half hobbling
pauses long enough
to snarl your way as if
to note his superiority
in still having three legs
compared to your two

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