Fellini
Today I’d like to be in one of those over-the-top
1950s Fellini films.
I’d be monstrous, unblushing, with huge melon breasts
that you could rub your face in,
though I know you wouldn’t;
or a mad uncle up a tree shouting “I want sex…”
with the whole family laughing and you down below
chomping on salami.
Or I’d be doing the old soft-shoe shuffle along the beach
at the straggling end of a wedding party –
sea up to my ankles, I wouldn’t mind –
to the winsome tune of your dry-land accordion
from behind some chichi restaurant window;
or a paparazzo on a Vespa
shamelessly after your headline story,
wearing Marcello Mastroianni specs,
white raincoat flying,
while you snaked away up the Via Veneto –
glamorous in the backseat,
with not one turning look.
Or I’d be one big silhouette in the black and white light
shaking the chains around my rupturing he-man heart –
everything to give,
while you, the only other character left,
would be standing in the circus tent
wondering why you were there.
Then maybe the camera would pan round,
find you laughing then crying in spite of yourself –
strangely big-hearted as all the rest.
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