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Ghost Dancers
Leaping from a Tome

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Leaping from a Tome
The Spirit Rock

Peter Magliocco

It is whatever hardens
The nocturne of beauty
Eluding you like a Tennessee Williams
Heroine. Making your own play
Up during life’s boring moments,
At work in the pedestrian pawn shop
Dominated by amber mugs & ashtrays.
Rising like pernicious Indian spirits at Red Rock
Fast as febrile airs
Perambulating through Vegas streets
You loved to cruise with boyfriends,
Even your dialogue was premeditated
& meticulously scripted for
Any routine noir felon
To emulate.
Long ago you figured out
The perfect crime
All thieves dream about
Casing the expensive jewelry
So many customers ogled, daily.
Despite how common in-house theft is,
“We’ll get away with it,” you winked;
“we’ll kiss this rat race adios, man,
& travel the Caribbean beaches forever.”
Far from these deserts where scorpions
Lurk under a plethora of chiseled rocks,
Waiting endlessly, their crooked tails
Yellowing from venom’s excess.
One bit you in the form of a real policeman,
& whatever spoils esthetic distance
Did you in, whatever illusions
Real existence unkindly disseminates
To draw down a curtain on
A wannabe porn star
Whose dreams
Some disease vitiates.
Then security cams
Catch you, red-handed
Clutching diamonds,
To portray your final role
Stealing a forbidden stone
Where eternal deserts burn.



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