Thursday, November 07, 2024

 We left Mantua

And Padova
And made Verona 
With a window looking out
On northern Italian bricks and sunlight
And Rotting roofs 
The bed horrendous!
We sunk into the center laughing
I went to use the wc and walked into a family's apartment
Grandmother and daughter, cousins, and boys caught fighting, uncle holding a bottle grinning, their faces like a painting
 Pierro Della Francesca
They were surprised and they laughed.
My startled drunken expression 
"NEXT! Next ...door!"