Author: aldegenova
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Pizza at The Trevi Fountain
One Euro in his coffee can buys the perfect pose. Romano street-mime dressed as the Little Tramp is more Zio Tony than Charlie Chaplin with his “assa nize” gesture – all of Italy in one sunny 1/125th of a second.
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The night the wind
The night the wind left you on my doorstep drenched, shivering with rain and tears you carried a small brown paper bag stuffed with toothbrush, underwear, white silk nightgown hasty luggage, narrow escape night flight from a hospital. Prison you called it where they put you because you bought a dog and maybe a dog
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At the Ancient Pond
Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.– Charles Baudelaire The hanging Spanish moss looks one-hundred years younger today, I’ve drained the ancient pond through a red and white striped straw and licked the salt from the rim, the frog sings plop and I’m tokin’ on his
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In Our Lifetime
Favorite poems that have yet to find a publisher
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Back Beat
The first edition of Back Beat was published by Norbert Blei’s Cross+Roads Press in 2001. Blei was familiar with the poetry of both DeGenova and Rossiter and had seen them perform together as the duo AvantRetro, a performance poetry presentation using musical accompaniment and other techniques to enhance the poetry readings. Both the poetry and