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Epiphany #1 from the Minimum Wage Shopping Plaza

Kenneth DiMaggio

The neon of the storefront
church crucifix is just as bland
as the American flag in the
window of the U.S. Army
recruiting center

serve your country
serve your Jesus

but the girl who dances around a
pole beneath a strobe light
does it for soldiers and preachers
to stuff 1 or 5-dollar bills
into her bikini

Propaganda    Propaganda
from the Bible to the latest
Hollywood tell-all memoir

but whether Moses heard
God or the sound of his own
mind breaking down just like
the film star who came back
from several bad movies and
a heroin addiction
--the masses continue to follow
those who at worst
might be banal
and at best
might be crazy

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