Arezzo : Writing

Playing Safe

Playing Safe

A Poem by Arezzo


Suburban mother, neat, ash-blonde, divorced, might pause beneath a Bedford bookstore awning, then check her list - lasagne, liverwurst ... today..
Sonorous Insult

Sonorous Insult

A Poem by Arezzo


(after Robert Desnos) I spit in the eye of the father of the bride of the blacksmith who made the axe with which the lumberjacks cut do..
Early Blossoms

Early Blossoms

A Poem by Arezzo


All England, blinking nervously, is out --a little mild spell, much to our surprise,has brightened frowsy February skies.We sniff the air with nostril..
Watergate

Watergate

A Poem by Arezzo


Mubarak is a case in point. You leave a man on top too long, he loses track of what he is, beginning to believe he's Pericles. Thus white shades..
The Emperor Takes His Ease

The Emperor Takes His Ease

A Poem by Arezzo


(after Victor Hugo)For the banished ones, of stubborn resistance, France is far off. The tomb is near. But don’t worry, Prince. Enjoy yo..
Tail-Gunner Joe

Tail-Gunner Joe

A Poem by Arezzo


Tail-Gunner Joe (Senator Joseph McCarthy gives his last pressinterview in the Lakeside Bar of the Hotel Avalon,Waukesha, Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov..
The Sick Man of Europe

The Sick Man of Europe

A Poem by Arezzo


Observe my words, and mark them well: Slovenia, Scotland, Senegal, Spain -- no country known this side of hell does anything, except for gain..
Melisande

Melisande

A Poem by Arezzo


What do you do? I couldn’t bring myself to write a “you’re untrue” type letter. It wouldn’t do. They’..
Greetings From Abersoch

Greetings From Abersoch

A Poem by Arezzo


The lion-coloured, boat-littered sand is packed and wrinkled by ebbing water, the sea ruffled in the breeze, smooth in lee. A father is strollin..
Marxism For Dummies (5)

Marxism For Dummies (5)

A Poem by Arezzo


Complicity is easy for the Right, one single flag to which they all adhere -- “someone might steal my loot”. This primal fear pr..