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Birth of a Nation

Peter Magliocco

Somehow I’m seeing myself as an extra
In a bad silent movie starring
A queen of the silents.
The days of filming have
Seeded bare laments
In their arboreal backgrounds
Of cheap scenery the birds decry.
The portly foreign director
Treats us badly, almost disparaging
This patriotic drama
He’s lost control of.
I yearn to be one of the actors
In a grinning close-up
Showing my pearly dentures.
Wowing my pretty love interest
With a rose between teeth,
Just like Chaplin, long before
Love’s destroyed by commerce
& the need of the empowered
To make us feel sexually
The transience of historical events.
We are martyrs in the cause
Of something greater than ourselves,
With Jehovah in a green-eyed lens
Choosing new fated actors –
Then disappearing in a cloud
Before the screen’s eternity swallows us
With red, white, & blue politics-of-porn.

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