by Ronald Massa
The LEGEND continues
in a sea of HONDAs fair youth and laughter
awaiting the hero’s return
to MICROSOFT car bombs
in the fragrant barbed wire WONDER BREAD playoffs
of the world’s greatest religious spectacle
Jesus Christ & Donald Trump
FIRESTONE Tires and
White Christian NETFLIX deodorant aliens
with KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN
sunsets on dopey cities
of dunces screaming
This is the place for tumors and rumors and
plastic girls wet with excitement
on Tylenol rainy days
In morphine nights
heroin beauties
lustily remember
our ATOM BOMB years and land mines
and all the burning graves of Palestine
Ah, this is a place to become a poet
a STARBUCKS memory of lipstick girls
the little ghost girls who dance in Arab gardens.
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RONALD MASSA is a graduate of Williams College and Cornell. His work has appeared in a number of journals and magazines both in this country and abroad including The Massachusetts Review and The New England Review. He lives in Arizona.
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