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Syntax and diction to emphasize a single word in one line. Tip of the cap to Ken e Bujold for suggestions concerning the final lines.

A rewrite from a poem I can't locate so I had to repost.

There really is a gentlemen's club in Sorrento in a courtyard; the rest is fiction or watching too much Scorsese.

Or somewhere else in Italy

Built from fragments in my notebooks.

Opening line borrowed from an earlier poem of mine and slightly revised.

two lies and a truth in a single sentence

In the same space as "Elevator".

Structured as ballad

Based on fact