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The Way of All Flesh

Peter Magliocco

To gambol nude with wunderkind
Freefalling in a pagan bacchanal on Main Street
Was what we fantasized about.
To exult with ladyboy Bacchus
About the babes, boyish centaurs
& bold harlequins in showgirl attires
Became a reality of drug-induced dreams
Sanctioned by medical marijuana.
Split clean the bounds of bourgeois hypocrisy
In extremis, by taking it
To the streets
Where true freedom awaits;
What will weave sonnets of lust
In the braided hair
Of dark fallen sybarites
For the everyday extravaganza,
& the hell with stressed society
Gone wrong, waiting for terrorists
To spring up, just flowers of evil everywhere
In interstices of electric mist.
Nattering nimrods of Sarah Palin be damned,
Splattering to bits stray canines for fun
With mammoth shotguns
While pretending to slay Russian bears.
Yet when my pot card permanently expired
The police crashed our revolting parties.
Media wags deemed revolutions archaic,
The brittle spoils of beheaded queens
Who, behind royal masques, danced ferally
On the gallows of history.
Don’t we know the 21st century achieved
The great martial enlightenment of limited warfare?
To march naked thereafter with my fellow man
In Abu Ghraib became grimly workmanlike:
Torturing so many into perverse submission
Became a way of empowerment,
The way of all flesh beyond
Its own corruption
In
Hedonistic
Prisons
Of
Patriotic
Ends.

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