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Ode #4 to St. Jude, Patron Saint for Lost or Impossible Causes.

Kenneth DiMaggio

Does your poetry bleed?
And if it doesn’t then here
is a wasted life along with
a razor to salvage whatever
dignity is left to it in a more
classical suicide because
when I lay down for my
final sleep I pray not to
the lord but all my
failed relationships
and friends and editors
who had to read my poetry
and above all to St. Jude
patron saint of lost
causes who like former
friends editors and lovers
found me impossible
(and rightly so!)
because anyone
trying to be a
poet from a red
white & black eyed
America has
to be a son of a bitch
(at least against himself) and
for anybody else whom
I was cruel and unfaithful to
I was just too impossible
even for myself
—and if such impossible
people can never become
regular folks (much less complete
a successful suicide) then we
can at least become
poets of questionable
talent but never without
a blood and passion and
from time to time an
apology to all editors
lovers and friends



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