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Gianluca Rizzo and Dominic Siracusa / Futurist Poets
LUCIANO FOLGORE
Sliding Fat
One two
one two
one two
Boring time monotonous flow
of train cars on tracks sharpened
by the sun Shards of trees
and poles photographed through the window
foam of light and humps of smoke
in profile Country snapshot
One two
one two
one two
steady march at the pace of
nerves
And upfront three massive boilers
of flesh with bubbling blood
Fat-fat snoring
Every thing unbuttoning all jackets
all vests Adipose adipose
The first’s gut almost on the floor
(forty years of delis) the second’s
double-chin falling on the chest
the third’s thighs plumped on the seat
bumping bouncing sliding on my
shoes Feeling the heavy slime
that glues movement
One two
one two
one two
Parsing the fat man’s sleep
Viscose atmosphere From time to
time a ray of quick light slices the
pendulous cheek off the
jaw A tunnel swallows the three
with suckers of darkness Then light
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