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Thieving for Adam or Scooby Doo

Peter Magliocco

They share the night
That does not harvest them.
Villains of some moldy madness
Who criminalize your neighborhood,
Vandalize your cars, steal your children
To refashion them as kidnapped video icons.

My father was not Tolstoy
But I think of them both
Dying in some lonely place of the spirit.
Both thought that words once freed them
From the hypocritical entrapment
Started by a single lie of biblical genesis
Some still laugh about.
As a boy in Pacoima I remember
The fig trees in our backyard,
How you could eat them off the tree
As you do apples in everyday gardens.
To open the green-bulb fig
& expose its pulpy fruit was special.
An offering like no other
With its magical textures,
Seeds the tongue siphoned off
Into a mouth’s river of saliva.
Only my father’s look broke the spell,
His eye of authority making it clear

The gravity of reaping fruit
Was something stolen
From the gods.

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