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Ode #1 to the Zero

Kenneth DiMaggio

As some of us
go to Hell
in a crack pipe
others buy
a ticket to life
as if it is an
overrated but
must- see
Broadway musical

Are you laughing yet and
if you are can you tell me
what’s the joke?

And as I get ready
to plunge my arms
into another sink full
of recently scalded
dirty dishes I think
I will be Jackie Kennedy
today and wearing
a pillbox hat and pink
suit that is just right
for this late November
day in Dallas

Oh I was just joking
(Dishwashers and drug
addicts can joke too)

It is just another day
in September where the
the date does not matter
a year after the millennium

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