writing from
Scars Publications

Audio/Video chapbooks cc&d magazine Down in the Dirt magazine books

 

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)
Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome, a Peter Magliocco book     Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome, a Peter Magliocco book 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
The Last Laugh

Peter Magliocco

Just wish I were in high school again:
Think of it, this middle-aged fart
(overweight, unshaven, pate balding)
Daring to overcome his past regret

Telling his fellow young students
Life’s all one big mistake,
A simple twist of natural error

Nothing really to get hung about,
Bent out of shape either,

I’d forgive the history teacher
Who believed me too dense
To understand old world cartography,
I’d salute the gym coach
& mimic chugging an invisible beer,
Wasted face smiling,
And I’d promise them I wouldn’t
Later drop out of college
To join the soldiers in the Nam, too.

But there are things we know nothing of,
Dreams that violate our youth
Turning us old too quickly.

When fate has the last laugh
My old school’s empty of students,
But spirits linger in radioactive dust
Inhaled from some invisible bong,
Choking me into dumb silence



Scars Publications


Copyright of written pieces remain with the author, who has allowed it to be shown through Scars Publications and Design.Web site © Scars Publications and Design. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.




Problems with this page? Then deal with it...