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Charred Remnants
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 Charred Remnants, the 2008 Down in the Dirt collection book
POEM FROM THE VANDALIZED BLACKBOARD AGE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (SHEL)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Shel spelled her diminutive
with only one “l”
and refused to be caged
as just “she”

And once she baseball-capped
her mowhawk
and muscled in-
to her brother’s varsity
jacket

--she passed as a pint-size longshoreman

And one night Shel
privileged her Art School
friends to see how well
she could infiltrate
the midnight peripatetic
at the isolated city park
eagle topped-monument
where men anonymously
lusted after men

--where she succeeded
in pardoning a light
from a guy who could have
earlier been smoking
on a women-whistling
construction crew

--an “Alpha” who gently cupped
one hand around hers
while she tobacco-sucked on his flame

But then pulled away
before he could discover--

“Oh��I don’t mean to be
a tease But I can’t help
but be both girl and boy”

--she explained��after she
rejoined her fellow outcasts
in Art

--pariahs��who may have only
known�� --one body

But who were now also drawn
to this dangerous��inexplicable
but strangely beautiful

other-body



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