Mario Petrucci
Mussolini and the graphologist
You want it straight?
Yes, you were misunderstood. A boy
always with the scrunched-up face, that
thick neck. A slight lean backwards
reveals lack of self-esteem. You laugh?
Your underdeveloped u’s and y’s
give strong sexual connotation – you’d be
intense in bed. Invasive even.
Your favourite colour is black.
You have a great desire to reach out
to those who border your life, would make
a fine second-in-command. You let down
those who are close – perhaps an entire
people. You are capable, eager to please
your peer group, those Herren at the thick end
of Europe’s wedge. The uncrossed t’s show
impatience – wait! A tendency to cut corners
off North Africa. You fear death.
Summarising your acid scrawl I deduce
you’ll be hung by the heels like a pig,
your mistress Petacci hamstrung
in miraculously unladdered silks,
both hacked revolting red
by your own countrypeople, though
your early social reforms will be admired
by among others the British. Ah, yes –
given the opportunity you might have been
an excellent chef.
Yes, you were misunderstood. A boy
always with the scrunched-up face, that
thick neck. A slight lean backwards
reveals lack of self-esteem. You laugh?
Your underdeveloped u’s and y’s
give strong sexual connotation – you’d be
intense in bed. Invasive even.
Your favourite colour is black.
You have a great desire to reach out
to those who border your life, would make
a fine second-in-command. You let down
those who are close – perhaps an entire
people. You are capable, eager to please
your peer group, those Herren at the thick end
of Europe’s wedge. The uncrossed t’s show
impatience – wait! A tendency to cut corners
off North Africa. You fear death.
Summarising your acid scrawl I deduce
you’ll be hung by the heels like a pig,
your mistress Petacci hamstrung
in miraculously unladdered silks,
both hacked revolting red
by your own countrypeople, though
your early social reforms will be admired
by among others the British. Ah, yes –
given the opportunity you might have been
an excellent chef.
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