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Poem #5 from The Oxycodone Highway

Kenneth DiMaggio

Not because her face sneered
“vermin” but because her 6-year old
wore a “Hello Kitty” sweater whose
insignia of a wide-eyed mouthless cartoon
cat appealed to one of her two
soon-to-be- killers that followed them
home from the supermarket and
you know the rest of the story it’s
as old as the picture of missing
children on milk cartons and as
young as sexually frustrated girls
accusing the village misfits
of being witches

And the way this slaughter in
the kitchen with the granite-topped
counters soon got virally posted
is the Oxycodone Highway

Whether you reach for the legal
prescription bottle in your
medicine cabinet or pretend
not to look at the carnage
on the newspaper rack while
waiting in line to check out your
groceries still makes no difference
just like if your sweatshirt
says Harvard or Disneyland:
we are all wide-eyed and mute
and hardly conscious of
pushing the shopping carriage

“—Clean up needed
in aisle number three.”

“Hello this is 911
please state your emergency
and if you can’t talk
please stay on the line.”



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