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Gianluca Rizzo and Dominic Siracusa / Futurist Poets
ARDENGO SOFFICI
CAFÉ
Toward a fiery hysteria light heart of civilizations
in circles here the influx of the night refracted
in a delta of anonymous eternal stellar abysses
of numbers in cheap glassware brought to reality
by the simple arithmetic of commerce
025 050 075 on the paint of the
tiles on the table modern Café In the
liquidation of a waltz idiocy of scarlet mounted
musics funiculì funiculà beggers
mulling over memories of the countryside
electric shadow branches in an absinthe iris
of three conker trees along the sidewalk back
and forth of amorous possibilities
comme il est bien chaussé?
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tu as vu
Si vas à Calatayud
Pregunta por la Dolores
Es una chica guapa — —
with a shimmy of
masked silks of bejeweled feathers of
eyes marshes pilgrimage of useless
nostalgia
ab ! ben non zut pas pour toute la nuit je
ne marche pas
what a damn’d pimp !
in the enluminure of faces abandoned under
makeup to the highest bidder Camp between