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Between the Barbed Wire
and the Still-to-be-Discovered ‘God Particle’
Remains an Unfinished Line of American Poetry (#1).

Kenneth DiMaggio

To paraphrase an old
Country & Western song
“I’ve been looking for God
in all the wrong places” but
after Kuwait   Iraq   and
Afghanistan whenever I
pick up   aim   and fire my
rifle feels just like
a piece of Heaven

--that never quite reaches
a city called Hartford
where kids who can’t aim
much less read can still
kill after firing stolen hand-
-guns while riding Sting-
-ray bicycles and just
as you illegally came here
from Honduras or Mexico
your unintended homicide
in this syringe-sharing
city does not make your
death here in America legal

Are we all aliens
and if so where is
our space ship?

And in the meantime
Mickey Mouse keeps
waiving to us from
Disney World as if
this is the way
back home

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