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Ode #6 to St. Jude, Patron Saint for Lost or Impossible Causes.

Kenneth DiMaggio

So drunk I did not realize
that the sudden turn I just
took was on to a frozen
pond which is what I did
failing again to get laid at
a cocktail lounge where all
the beehive haired divorcees
made a trophy of every punk’s
virginity except mine
—that will still try
to find some other
vice or misdemeanor
or other act of cowardice
to help lose my innocence
—which will still take refuge
in the prayers to a saint
who was the patron for lost
causes
—prayer that is sometimes
genuine like a two year old
who has yet to learn how
to lie and sometimes like
a forever losing twenty year
old whose pick-up lines would
not even score with women
with false teeth
—but who at one time
were young and had smiles
that made young men
fall in love
—what a saint never falls
out of
—the same way
a punk can always drive
his car onto a frozen pond
—but not drive away
his love for all women
no matter how much
they might have to
reject him

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