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The Sodden Bones

Peter Magliocco

If we are not drunk then
What waves to us through
The fortress of fragile bones
We inhabit?
Let me kick the can outside
In the trash-strewn yard
Bad things are buried beneath.
Through all the mock burials
We laugh
Reading our heartfelt tributes
To the abused animal kingdom, no less,
The sodden yard now infested
With dead insects in mud puddles
Dogs drink from.
If we are not plague victims
Or adults still children
In the making,
Thanks to the fluctuating truth
(or lies) of religion
& medical science, then our games
Pale before the lugubrious slaughter
Of phylum, of brown mollusk,
Whatever is the unoriginal sin
Of our backyard cosmos
The worms turn from,
Disdaining even our bodies making love
Now, after judgment comes.

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