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Drowning with God (& Howdy Doody)

Peter Magliocco

Now there is no hurry.
Marsh weeds break
From the shore of thought,
Spreading themselves over
The young victim’s body.
Male or female doesn’t matter
In this moment’s desecration
& its forever aftermath.
In light of the unstoppable,
Nothing, not even a train wreck, matters.
You, the investigating official,
Poking my body, my remains.
Softly comes the medical examiner’s
Intrusion of tools within me.
Then I awake, realizing the bad
Dream of everyday fossils
In my bedroom, the fluttering T.V.
Skipping its horizontal hold.
The year’s still black & white, 1963;
I am fifteen.
The world aches from tragedy.
You who had died only
To be rudely born again,
At the touch of rustic river beds.
What took us beyond Dallas
Or the Cold War, what humbled
The room’s dry stillness for an instant,
Until I kneeled before your presence
& time’s freckled passing.

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