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Joseph Sciorra (April 1, 2008)

In joyous celebration of April’s National Poetry Month and Fool’s Day, I offer these four “found poems” made entirely from tags I found on i-italy.org.

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Benedict XVI’s Dadaist Dance
(made in Dylan fashion)
 
biomedica brain drain of divine ghosts and citizen children;
cappuccino censorship of big band corruzione.
 
                        documentary ebrei
                               humanitarian Halloween
                                       graduate school.
 
            molecular catholics google cyberspace crucifix and birdland paradiso.
gay abortion feminism mask an amusing autobiography.
legions of laissez-faire saints mob Brooklyn and New Jersey in procession:
 
                        Sinatra
                             Scorsese
Anna Magnani.
 
                                    extra virgin Silvana Mangano.
 
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Baroque Pinocchio Politics
 
            italo-americano language:
 
                   mafia mafioso mafiosi
 
                                   
                                                            mammoni.
 
the economy of authenticity:
childhood autobiography, a history of identity victims.
                goomba gesture of anti-defamation statistics; activists w[h]ine ethnic disunity.
 
                    Tresca
 
                        Vanzetti
                                   
                               Gramsci
 
 
            watch the pallino, Rudy!              
 
 
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Animazione
 
young adults,
     lovers,
met cyberwriting.
 
slow simulation: deficiency.
 
Epifany!
     Holiday in Italy!
 
FUGA! VALIGIE! MOVIMENTI!
 
Unions in Rome, breakfast in Milan, festa in Sardgena!
 
vestiti: BING! and
all day: FRICK! FRICK! FRICK!
 
brunello and pizza
poetry, music, art
 
flavor of female forest, fuel of endowed balls
all day: FRICK! FRICK! FRICK!
aiHAAAA!!!!
 
 
lovers fashion divine times in unity.
dolce paradiso
 
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La Tregedia di Iraq
(blue note)
 
Washington’s illegal Wall Street war,
TNT salvo rock town and city,
victims di morte:
 
children, young adults, parents
 
bitter inferno ghosts.
 
Iraq war institutes government censorship and fuel[s] terrorismo radicalism.
 
Presidential elections: referendum on citizen discontent and government confidence.
 
Belief in peace in 2008: Obama.
 
 

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