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Ode #2 to My Heavy Metal Record Collection

Kenneth DiMaggio

To drink and die young
was never easy in a town despite
the old men from the last war
buying you beers at 14 or 15 at
The American Legion Hall while
painting a red white and black-eyed
glory that would fatally future you
to the Marine Corps recruiter but
you could always get some 14
or 15 year old reform school
girl pregnant and have a long
life ripping asbestos from
old factories and living in
a trailer but—

I wanted to die for the Devil
I wanted to die with a woman
who didn’t want to get pregnant
just get kicked out of Paradise
—even if that was the sentiment
from the adolescent lyrics
on one of my Heavy Metal albums

See: those young men beneath flag-
posted stone        they will remain there
eternally

just like the country & God
that promised to honor
them forever

is now carved
on their memorials



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