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Ode #2 to a City Whose Young Come of Age Suckling on a Wild Pit Bull Bitch

Kenneth DiMaggio

Though some other knuckles
invented it elsewhere
“The Knockout Game” has
its own Hartford flavor where
the 13-or-14 year old wrapped
inside of his hoodie will try
to knock out the driver
foolish enough to leave
her or his window open
at a traffic stop but
in this syringe-size city where
the cops & public school
teachers joke about how
the kids get their milk
from the nipples of a
wild Pitbull
having the shield of
safety-proofed glass will
still not stop a 14-or-15 year
old trying to punch it out with
a busted & lacerated hand that
will soon get fixed & stitched in
time for it to graduate to
carjacking and hopefully after
that the United States Marine Corps
—because she’s real alright

Not in the way no one
has ever seen her but in
how the locals
are always
hunting her

even if they are
the children
who came of age
drinking her milk

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