Friday, December 15, 2023

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Your dream sounds a diminished seventh
in a wine-soaked gritty eatery
with you wearing your want in bib-overalls
inventorying the dissonant conversations
that once filled the long, narrow, high-ceilinged
hallway to nowhere . . .
A chance encounter, the makeshift profile
a deluge of lines that grows tired
as you excuse yourself
onto a parallel stage
colored with red collared Maine Coons
big enough to intimidate . . . a perfect fit
for your inscrutable autofiction . . .
How often did standins speak their tongue? . . .
anticipation flooding their ludicrous logic . . .
a takedown by a passing mathematician
whose game theory panoply just out in paperback
leapfrogged to the top of some obscure list
of academic best sellers . . .

Antonio Palmerini