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Back in the U.S.S.R.

Peter Magliocco

There are no excuses in life or death,
Only the aftermath of avowals.
Visions of Johanna pale before
Configurations of unheavenly bodies.
Some still pine for the Neanderthal

& the days of wine & Moses.
Persecuted poets were once a given;
the gilded cathedral steeples
reflected an unreasoning light
dwindling under fascist shadows.

In America, Rock & Roll was born
To shake off Cold War shackles.
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog,
Comrade, in a heartbreak hotel
Of genocide, race riots, prisons

Beyond the veldt or prairie vale.
The revolution spawned party songs
But, like a universal rolling stone,
Sounds of silence gather moss
In mouths of the grateful dead.

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