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Poem #2 from The White Trash Book of the Dead

Kenneth DiMaggio

Sitting on the church steps
reading comic books
& pornography
—you’ve pretty much read
about all the important people
& stories in the Bible

Chewing gum and blowing
bubbles the color of napalm
and atomic bomb blasts
—you’ve covered all you
need to know about
American history

Your employer’s check book
& your Daddy’s pick-up truck with
the rifle in the rear window rack
—the only things you
& your girlfriend need
to steal for a future that
may be brief but never
prolonged behind a fork-
lift and cash register like it
was for your parents

— who still hope you two will
inherit the 200-year old family
Bible filled with incest sodomy
witches executioners and
most of all thieves
getting crucified

—the genealogy of your
White-Trash DNA

—the DNA
that has finally come
to challenge God

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