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POEM FROM THE GARBAGE NOTEBOOKS (DOCUMENT)

Kenneth DiMaggio

You can finally open
what was always
a shuttered window

--but where
is the rest of the building

where are the rooms
where dreams
could be stretched out
like new maps of conquest
across pearl-inlay tables

that spiraled
into an abyss

one morning in September

for which
you still have some
late legal papers
from the firm
of Nihilstein&Nihilstein
to deliver

And now it is a new morning
in September

where this former messenger
has a blackboard to write on

--a canon from which to inspire

But your students
have already foreseen
the collapse of their classroom

and by getting pregnant going
to prison or joining the military

they are just pre-maturely
fulfilling the lives
they have to choose from
after graduation

And if you can no longer
pick up the chalk
to write down the titles
of several great books

it is because of this
undelivered document

--papers that now need to be
revised and readdressed

to states that were once
united in an ideal

--but democratic vision

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