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Ghost Dancers
Leaping from a Tome

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Burn the Last Tabloid

Peter Magliocco

I think of the poet
Who has published thousands of poems
But only one will matter on his gravestone.
And the people you can’t save with reason
But will accept Jesus like long distance charges.
Think of the one politician
Who seems smarter than the others,
Yet when elected becomes a twittering retard
Fathering an illegitimate kid,
Or harboring a secretly lurid sex life
The Enquirer drools about.

Last month I escaped
From an academic prison
Where we make digital license plates.
“Who will dream in the Tuscan night
Of Leonardo’s sex life?” I ask.
Tell me, do the newsprint pundits
Know what it’s like to destroy
All your art school paintings
At three in the morning, dead drunk:
To will the faulty body back
To life without pills, or to
Toast those reflections in a blind eye
Blinking like a red light
At the railroad crossing
For this train wreck called life?



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