a red apple
1
to have a horse
to be small again
may it always be summer
may life be milder
than all the animals on earth
to be a rock
to go forward and back in time to see primitive men
to have a house made of olive trees
to go by horse
to sleep on a fir bed
to go to the sea
to go far away
to go live in america
to play blindman’s bluff
may meteorites not fall to earth
may life be made of beds only
to be a friend to all her friends
to live in an enormous house with a swimming pool
to be on a galleon forever
to be a peach tree
a fox
to fly
to learn all the languages
to be a squirrel
a horse
to go to the sun
2
to be an eagle
to not go to work
to look at mountains from afar
to be a tour guide
to look at castles
to look at cottages of millionaires
come look in my castle
to be a ghost without head leaving the grave
to be a ghost without head leaving to frighten
a star to be
to have a magic wand and make all sorts of magic
to go into space
to know german
to have a crocodile inside the house
to see men what things they use to eat
to see men what things they use to cut
to see objects
to become a high jumper
an airplane
to live outside with the flowers
to live on the bottom of the sea
to live in los angeles but also in san francisco
3
to see tarzan nude
idiot
to be seven again
waterfalls
an adventure
may it always be spring
to stay at home
may children not harm other children
may nature not be polluted
to throw myself from a waterfall
a magical horse
to go away to mexico
to run around with my friends all night long forever
to ride a dog
to go on a rainbow
to have a garden filled with flowers
a tiger with schiavona-like teeth
to be a snake in the jungle
to know how to tell stories
to be an archeologist
a mummie
to swim with dolphins
to play with dolls
may books be made solely with pictures
to live in a cottage in the woods
if only I wasn’t blonde with blue eyes
if only I had green hair with red eyes
to have a dog
to go on a tgv train
to be kidnapped by pirates
to have as your house the sphinx
to go on a time machine and see the jurassic period
and bring back some dinosaurs to cause much fright
4
to throw myself from a bridge
to be a king
to live on a farm
to have a tarantula or half a scorpion
to have half a scorpion and half a tarantula
to have a stall
to throw myself from a castle
to make five million a year
to be a bird
to go on a cruise
dog horse fairy sun
mickey mouse squirrel
cat a fish
a mamma bear
a bed
on the beach
a fish
me you and the sun
to play doctor
to be a missile
may it always be summer
to stay with my cat
may spring last a lifetime
to belong to a circus
if only dinosaurs were still here
to help animals
to have a telescope
to go to egypt
to go to my sister in munich
to stay in the jungle
to climb up trees without hurting myself
may all the people be alive
a bed of cedar
5
to go to china
have myself called mohammad
hero
to pilot an airplane
a boat
a world map from the 1600’s
an ice cream
to work to improve
to be small again
to be small
to be even smaller

4 Comments for “Seven Contemporary Italian Poets (6/7)”

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   If I could select what kind of ’straightening out’ I should get
   as an errant child, or ‘bad kid’ these poems would be it.
   I don’t know how to say it. This is the level
   that ideology should be on. I am pretty stalwart
   unto the bugles of the weird, I am willing to do
   things, to say things that get me into trouble
   just to illustrate the prickliness and rickliness,
   the ruckliness and fugliness of bootifuel long wags{{{
   but that’s~
   but on a cold day
   it’s nice to have a fuzzy fleece or a poem
   like one of these…
   I don’t speak Italian, but I sometimes speak
   a faux Italian, and I used to go around saying
   Ti Spaco Le Face for years
   which means
   I’ll smash your face!
   It is something from an Italian gameshow.
   An Italian friend of mind taught me to say
   “Boogiamo” which means “Let’s boogie..”
   which means “let’s go”..
   I use that word Boogiamo just about every day..
   To me, it isn’t the fertile crescent which
   is the cradle of modern [western] intelligence, but Rome,
   Rome itself is a kind of tribute to my weird aesthetic
   and illustrates it
   my version of iconism / total syntax / kryptiq amoebism
   ROME is in Italy
   which is shaped like a BOOT
   What “is” language?
   It {is} a lie!
   nooo..
   a tally!
   a mark! x(t) [variable over time]
   an ally!
   People have been in shoes
   for Forty Thousand years..
   roam, roam, o ye merry miracles!

   

   Posted By: Lanny Quarles on January 10, 2009 at 1:46 pm

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   ganzissime!

   

   Posted By: sarmizegetusa on January 10, 2009 at 6:50 pm

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   An Italian commentator left a one-word comment, “ganzissime!”, that was unfortunately deleted by the moderator. That was neither spam nor porn ad. Ganza means cool, awesome or rad…

   

   Posted By: Linh Dinh on January 11, 2009 at 9:18 am

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   …If Malevich was to paint black squares…only…

   

   Posted By: Pavel on March 15, 2009 at 5:19 pm

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