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From rustic Peccioli, Tuscany to alta moda Venice

On the occasion of Matt(eo), while staying in Tuscany, visiting Venice. What a Paisan!

Inside a shop in Peccioli
nestled in tight an alleyway
was Matteo munching cannoli?
No, on a Venice getaway!

Deserted hoi polloi
for glitterati
Smoothly he would deploy
with literati

where acing Palazzo dinners
with dizzying crowd of winners

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-paisan(o) = someone, here our son Matt(eo), who understands the significance of simply being Italian
-Palazzo dinner = https://quintessenceblog.com/inside-venice

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Of obligations self-absolved

Humans selfishly devolved
into self-absorbed, complacent
Of obligations absolved
only sparingly complaisant

Turned inconsiderate, smug
Unless there’s something gained
barely a glance or a shrug
towards others deigned

Cluelessly protesting: “We’re blameless!”
Conniving, scheming, seeming shameless

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Weakly we preen watching a screen

So tingly tactile:
tripping on an anthill
dancing a quadrille
working in a steel mill

Instead we vainly preen:
leaned on the Net’s crutch
as watching on a screen
keep us out of touch

Yet we butt in prone to pronounce – come on!
although we know so little from hands-on!

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Förnimmer Förtröstans vindfläkt

Hamnade på dess västkust
av en nation hejdlös
Fylld av oändlig olust
över kultur skamlös

I livets höst
(förstås ‘senvinter’)
tröttnat min röst
mens sinne slinter

Färdigrutit
förbrukat krutet
Färdigskrutit
går snabbt mot slutet

Väskan packad, iförd resdräkt
förnimmer Förtröstans vindfläkt

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Senators spray sick graffiti

Senatorial behavior during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearing inspired this verse.

Such puffed up buffoons!
Poltroons in a war dance!
Aspired, failed tycoons?
Leaves us looking askance

Hearings in judicial committee
lair of panicked male chauvinism
where senators spray sick graffiti
ominous of neo-fascism

Misogyny in harsh light
shining unsparingly bright

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Slammed, at last, the door on my Past!

My worn mind kept on churning
jaws clenched in face paling
ears & cheeks hotly burning
relived every failing

Aged humiliations amassed
kept The Now cruelly harassed

I could not bear in time left
to be held captive by The Past
Then, at last, found strength to heft
rebelled in too long suppressed blast!

Since having tamed The Past iniquitous
The Now been blossoming ubiquitous