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Go to the Deaf Singers

Peter Magliocco

I am Mayakovsky in resonating firmament
Seeking a destiny of my beginning,
The initial stirrings of rebirth
In a country not mine now.

Strange to see the fast food dominions
In a place where people devour
Ground beef in endless hunger.
The way many fervent faithful

Lap up the pharmaceutical host
Onto their obedient tongues?
The way some sing chants of ages
While we, in deafness, don’t hear

False organ keys striking down
As the player swoons above us,
With rectitude, his tongue & lips dry.
I am Walt Whitman, too, high on love,

Yet unable to recognize this once native
Land given to autos & vast machinery
Obliterating the last poetic reckonings.
Here routine citizens drably huddle

Around digital orbs of computer ports
Seeking contact with galactic megabytes.
What keeps us properly anchored
To necessary deception shimmering

As planets once revolved overhead
To wise men singing?
Now we are adrift in silent spirits,
Far from the land’s founding ideals

With lies passing for profundities,
& whoever hears truly the tolling hour
Must wander alone over fey landscapes
Beyond the shadow of fallen stars.

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