Short Grazie Poems

with olive complexion
the Mexican army 
walked off the set
to partake in 
comida and 
a sieste

but not frijoles 
instead pass 
the pasta 
with grazie
and prego
needing more parmesan...

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half asleep 
half awake
I am looking 
staring

at a an attractive 
young women 
on  a print on my wall 
of a famous painting 

imagining the painter 
Signor Leonardo 
saying  to Ms. Lisa
with a sensuous accent

come on 
Monna 
give me 
a little smile

just a little more
a teeny bit more

aspetta

grazie...

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from a street
in Cartagena
stepping
suddenly

into a 

restaurant
so Italian
surely i was
in a time warp

for i

i was still
in Colombia but
fooled by the food
so authentico

and even

the wine was 
from Italy so
after paying
my bill

instead

of using
the usual
gracias i just 
had to say

grazie...

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Psicologia 
Grazie per psicologia, signor Wundt
Tu! Intelligente
The field opens our minds to make us realize so much
Manual boring tasks make no sense
Corps constantly talk about research
Bu they are full of false correlational fico matter 
Psicologia helps us realize that the cubicle is annoiso
Without knowledge one cannot succeed
Grazie signor(dottore) Wundt...

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waitress
garcon
waiter
what

country am i
in to say no
more give
my wife

mi esposa
no vino
even if 
she

asks for more
she doesn't
no gracias
from your

grazie so
s'il vous plait
or por favor no
nada nothing more

el cheque
die Prufung
thank you so much
domo arigatogozaimasu

she'll sleep
sleep it off and
never remember
that i was even there...

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in a café
in a city
of a country
who knows which
one she has picked

never seen
never been
but longing
to belong to what
she already belongs

linguistically
mixed up silly
Spanish
in Sicily
laughing

otra
to altro
but
vino
stays the same

vida
and vita
so close 
for a toast
drink more

so that
cheers
becomes
from salud
to cin cin

drunken
slurs
of
gracias
to grazie...

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