I’m so glad friend Felix Gagliano shared his upbeat poem with us:
LOUCHE CHANGE
With more yesterdays behind me
than tomorrows before me,
I fancy myself in other times and places.
Today I imagine myself in the Art Deco era.
My life has been mostly long and calm,
nothing like Bohemians such as Modigliani
who lived wildly and recklessly choosing:
une vie breve mais intense.
I want to rejuvenate like a Rose of Jericho,
and to try being rakish, wicked and louche.
I want to embellish the music of my life
with grace notes and stirring glissandi.
I like talking with Picasso and Hemmingway
in the salon of Gertrude and her loyal Alice.
Perhaps I shall have a torrid love affair or two,
one with the enigmatic Tamara de Lempika.
I yearn to stretch beyond being banal
Let the finale of my life crescendo.
May it be like a glorious harvest moon,
a last burst of light before the dark winter.
–Felix Gagliano, October 2022
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Thank you, sir!
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