Eden Underground: Poetry of Darkness by Manzetti Alessandro
Author:Manzetti, Alessandro [Manzetti, Alessandro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: QuarkXPress, ebook, epub
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Published: 2015-07-10T07:00:00+00:00
LACRIMOSA
The girl cries,
sitting on her piece of sidewalk.
The ravens dance, cawing,
forming a narrow, black circle
around the little hooker
who plugs her ears not to hear.
Their beaks suck
at the puddles of tears,
small oceans from young eyes,
without a seabed,
without coral’s colorful bones.
The biggest raven observes the scene,
keeping its balance on a branch—
the totem of flesh that everyone venerates—
it flaps its wings,
its chorus of feathers
merged with the strident violins
of the car’s brakes,
singing for the girl
below the streams of her runny makeup.
The girl’s face is streaked by black lines,
infinite.
They are her faded thoughts, watered down,
drawing the lines of a requiem,
a white pentagram
on a black background.
The first customer of the evening
opens the window of his car,
hands a handkerchief to the girl,
then his sticky tongue,
the one of a heretic chameleon,
snaps toward his prey,
hitting her lukewarm wings.
The girl is dragged across the asphalt
to the man’s mouth,
his reptile heart
and infected belly.
The black car moves away.
The biggest raven chases it
toward the parking lot to the east,
a graveyard of strains, beheaded trees;
a rectangle of cement
pierced by gold manholes
which lead straight to hell.
The bird rotates its turbid eyes,
sees the man sucking his fingers,
enjoying,
pants down,
the taste of honey and Eden’s tomatoes,
the bittersweet, delicious pulp
of the torn, sold adolescence,
licking as the god of the saddest violins—
salt, tides, tears
of a sea never crossed
never pierced by a bow.
Amen.
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