Alessandro Cusimano

The Prisoners

                                          
crawling against the light

the beggars keep watching
the city has betrayed them
has given them nothing

red faced nails in single file

move strange amputated shapes
branched on the sidewalk

and the memory

well painted on their face
has the sound of a chorus of voices
and the voices die
in the most bestial notes
in the history of their humanity

in thousands

continue to strive
for one truth at a time
for a life
as a vending machine
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Hollywood Nymph

the serendipity is in a motley
bungalow where
all the plans begin to jell
Wendy lives in Queer Street
dressed in a persuasive crocodile
kimono
Wendy is
photogenic Wendy is pyromaniac
Wendy has
the nerve of a squeezed orange
in the still of the night
Wendy gets up with a jerk
dreaming of
a trip to Temptation
odds and ends
jeopardies
jests and strait jackets
and
phony excuses

drunk

Wendy is the perfect woman
of straw
along with a braggart in
a jammy loft
or the rakehell of the day
next to the rose gardens
Wendy is the lover

of the betrayals

with the intent to entertain
radio stars
movie makers
fumy outlines
Rams
and Raiders
speaking into a wonky
microphone
chasing a nine days’ wonder
the crucial romance

​confusional states of America


 


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Alessandro Cusimano was born in Palermo, Italy, on July 2, 1967. He lives in Rome, where he is writer, poet, playwright. Anarchist and visionary, painful and surreal, his works reflect on anxiety, crush conventions and illusions, proclaiming, with a barrage of words, that life is, by its nature, a scandal. Appeared recently on the international literary stage, some of his writings have been published by The Cynic Online Magazine, Decanto Magazine, The Recusant, FOLLY Magazine, Exercise Bowler, Streetcake Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Numinous Magazine, Deadman’s Tome, RED OCHRE Lit, Orion’s Child Magazine, Black Cat Poems and EPIPHANY Magazine.