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Cup Logo Published on March 04, 1999 by Anthony V. Toscano
Divorce

for a season after mary left her
skinny boy she played the role
of a communist with an innocent bent
toward touching perfume daddy girls

with shingled hair who gathered close
on tuesday nights to bitch about
the blizzard gale that screamed against
the walls of brick and ice inside

they held around a cozy fire
and unified on cookbook quiche
with proletarian vegetables
and bourgeois camembert

whose blended spice with chardonnay
made mary think of pagan sex
enough to wet between her legs
and ruin thought of politics

while he the child disturbed below
a knife inside his fisted hand
a woolen cap drawn round his face
turned up to watch the orange glass

that kept him trapped a maniac
who begged his god to drag her down
to meet his eyes and tell him why
a child should suffer suicide


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