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Somewhere Between My Morning Commute and
My Next Nervous Breakdown

Kenneth DiMaggio

When did the key
to my car become
a trigger and when
did my job in a cubicle
become a bomb?

And because it is
my supervisor’s birthday
do I have to inflate
the company target goals
like they were a body county
for a war we will never win?

But because Marjorie
is 57 today but spent
half of her over-inflated
salary sculpting away
her identity we will pretend
that she is forty just like
we’ll ignore how Jim’s son
is not an honor student
despite the private school
for which he re-mortgaged
his house while LaTonya
will never be Jim or Marjorie’s
neighbor despite the way they
voted for Barack Obama whose
car turned out to be
a weapon

--but like all of our Chevys
or Fords

eventually turned to rust

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