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Elegy for Avenue A (#2)

Kenneth DiMaggio

“Bentham’s Panopticon is ...[a] place [for]
a supervisor in a central tower and shut up in each cell
a madman, a patient, a condemned man,
a worker or schoolboy.” –Michel Foucault

In a loft with windows tall
as this city’s skyscrapers but
with only a drag queen’s G-string
pinned up as mock curtain are
six or seven futons sleeping
passed out poets who are now
blissful snoring fetuses or post-orgasmic
cadavers but one of them marked
with a half open book near her still
petite spike-heeled foot which
you nibble and kiss to see if
she’s still alive before picking
unknown tome up and while she
umphs! in her sleep you discover
Michel Foucault’s Discipline &
Punish
none of which makes
any sense during the middle
of the Bush Sr. presidency
which has just declared war
on narcotic pellets shaped like
the teeth of supermodel mannequins
because in an East Village loft
with windows tall as this city’s
skyscrapers and with only
a drag queen’s G-string
to conceal the ruins of last night’s
poetry reading: as blissful orgasmic
poets we had no shame to display
to the Panopticon



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