SandScript 2020

Giusseppe Giampaolo
Steve Nagy
& then there was Giuseppe Giampaolo
whom we met 20 years previous
when we were all clients at the methadone
clinic. Since then, Giuseppe Giampaolo
we would see on occasion on the
Sun Tran 15, Giuseppe Giampaolo
POETRY
with his carpenter’s tools & belt & hugeass
orange bucket from Home Depot. We laughed,
seeing the thinning & graying & turning to a
half strawberry & half platinum blond of
Giuseppe Giampaolo,
6’4”, 240 pounds of linebacker brawn,
with a once scarlet mullet of a mane,
widow’s peak down to the eyebrows.
Totally ginger. Totally sanguine. We
broke into loud laughter (people
looked at us but we couldn’t give two shits).
We remembered taking bets at the
methadone clinic of who could guess
the name of Giuseppe Giampaolo.
Of course, no one could guess the
name “Giuseppe,” let alone, “Giampaolo”
& as we kept laughing,
Giuseppe Giampaolo
smiled & flipped us off at
Speedway & Campbell where he got
Off the 15 at Taco Bell…
We gave him back the bird.
We swear we saw fresh tracks
on the freckled forearms of
Giuseppe Giampaolo.
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