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Poem from The Hartford Epic (#7)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Above these coffin-shaped
but American flag flying
bungalows used to be
a milky way but now
the only pattern the stars
make is of a skeleton
dangling from a scaffold

Beats me why the cosmos
got distorted like that when
today we execute through
lethal injection or the gas
chamber

Maybe the night is just
a shadow of our frontier
past where justice was
swift but also no one
forget what that justice was

—not like today where folks
will kill no matter what way
you execute them and worst
of all is when even the skeleton
periodically breaks apart and
the stars become like
the bones we often find in places
as close as our backyards but
without ever being able
to identify who (let’s
presume) these victims are

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