Laura Solomon

 

NICOLA

TO THE FAIR CITY OF VERONA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicola

 

The future started a long time ago

 

In a green place

Full of dreams

 

Of tender tigers and BB Kings

 

With Samantha Foxes and Anthony Hopkinses

Owen Wilsons and Johnny the Crows

 

And Jerry Lee Lewises

And Jennifer Lopezes

Angelina Jolies and Shirley Temples

 

The things your mouth chooses to say

And the mind within that plays

 

Dragon dragon!

Follow me into the past

 

Where you are floating on a yellow raft

And I am elegant in red stilts

And we are Egyptian

Sublime & aflame

Flying a space elevator to the moon

 

        Above the Atlantic Ocean

 

I am somewhere with you

That is in you

 

 

                                                            9/4/07

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the Fair City of Verona

 

 

Paris is the perfect city

For Italians

And Americans

Maybe even the French

 

See how easily I swim across

 

ItŐs cold, itŐs cold

But I keep moving

 

I keep moving through the no moon dark

 

And the schools of silent sharks

And all the waves

And through hurricanes

I keep moving

 

See how easily I swim across

 

Dry myself off

Head into town