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This sequence of fifty 14-line poems uses the Zapruder Film of President Kennedy's murder as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim's experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the facts of power determine history. Epic tradition (e.g., Homer, Dante, Milton) shares these pages with science, religion, and popular culture, now funny and now horrifying. Limousine, Midnight Blue is a haunted book about a haunted film of an event whose hungry ghosts still walk the American unconscious, rattling their chains louder every year.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Acknowledgments
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  1. Note to the Reader
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  1. Z-150: Here comes authority, waving to the many
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  1. Z-151: Sure, it’s pretty much the same, but now
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  1. Z-152: At this point, Oswald opens wide his mouth and lunges
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  1. Z-153: At eighteen frames per second, we’re a half a second
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  1. Z-154: So far, so good. This being a Lincoln
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  1. Z-155: Steady as she goes. This is maybe three feet down
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  1. Z-156: Aristotle taught Athens and the world about
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  1. Z-157: The frames are a deck of cards, or they are stars
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  1. Z-158: I know something you don’t know
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  1. Z-159: Now we’re getting somewhere. Life’s a fence-mending
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  1. Z-160: Parallel universe, my ass. Everybody knows
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  1. Z-161: Sometime between A.D. 161 and 303, Saint Cecilia
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  1. Z-162: Gentlemen, man your lenses
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  1. Z-163: How about the triple underpass as the cervix of the world
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  1. Z-164: This is a race between the sound of my voice
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  1. Z-165: By now it should be clear to you, the film
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  1. Z-166: Richard Helms, James Jesus Angleton
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  1. Z-167: You were warned and went down anyway and now
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  1. Z-168: What walks on four legs in the morning
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  1. Z-169: Tell me, Muse, of that man of many turns
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  1. Z-170: If you’re so smart, John Kennedy, what’s gravity?
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  1. Z-171: Come as you are. At the Resurrection, you won’t need
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  1. Z-172: II Samuel 11:24: And the shooters shot from off the wall
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  1. Z-173: Let’s say I am going to a banquet, and I plan
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  1. Z-174: Let’s camp here for the night. Under the elms
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  1. Z-175: Hand, wave your last. This is my final smile
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  1. Z-176: In the race I run with my adrenal glands, I win
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  1. Z-177: If you see the Buddha on the road, well, you know
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  1. Z-178: Whatever it was, it’s over now
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  1. Z-179: Suppose you’re in a spaceship and you go outside
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  1. Z-180: Though Nietzsche doesn’t die till 1900
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  1. Z-181: This is my reluctance to decide, coiling around
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  1. Z-182: Someday, when this same thing happens to you
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  1. Z-183: In a democracy, everyone is the President.
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  1. Z-184: When you’re five and you have to go to bed
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  1. Z-185: After my hundred-eighty-fifth millennium
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  1. Z-186: Now why would anybody want to kill little ole me?
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  1. Z-187: Homer doesn’t mention it was raining when Apollo
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  1. Z-188: Death when it comes will have the sun’s light fingers
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  1. Z-189: King Arthur and his chambermaid that stained
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  1. Z-190: Another photo soon, where like a patient scrutinized
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  1. Z-191: Blur. The frame is frozen solid, hanging somewhere
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  1. Z-192: Imagine me riding skeletal down Main Street on a bicycle
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  1. Z-193: Just about now, the fellow on the underpass
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  1. Z-194: Throat, back, back of the head, front of the head
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  1. Z-195: Listen to the poet, reader so dear to me
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  1. Z-196: Another blurry one. Old man Zapruder had his hand
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  1. Z-197: What comes through me now? These seeds of hell
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  1. Z-198: Welcome, master of inevitable closure come to kill me.
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  1. Z-221 / Z-313: There is no picture of the shooter at the picket fence.
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  1. Notes
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