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enjoy this Peter Magliocco writing in the Down in the Dirt free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2011 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome

one too many mornings & a thousand miles behind

Peter Magliocco

when youth is taken
like an expendable organ
from ordinary people
it drains the sum of all parts
in one’s human odometer
remonstrating us for continuing

to live so long
taxing our skin with wrinkles
to pilfer any beauty left
when age takes desire
it does so with cruelty
casting molecules to sepulchral winds

slowing down vital functions
rendering us pale imitations
of known former selves
billing us for staid passions
still dwelling in psychic reservoirs
like carburetor sludge

in the heart’s faulty engine
age wears down the human touch
leaving remnants of feeling
worse for the wear
on the pallbearer’s
speeding shadow

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