The Empress and the Emperor of Italia
and these games of the nose
running too long it’s the story
of my life and her family and the work
of a lifetime playing nurse as if the stars
handed her an apron and a cross
and she has no choice but to help him down
when he always wants to go back up and ride
the slopes for 44 years and she
with not even so much as a nostril’s full
who can draw enough strength to dab one
finger only in the bowl and lick it all over
around the gums and tongue and lips
and then race for hours only to forget it all
but with a dick like golden pasta shells
he can make her anything and she will lap it up
drawing the Emperor twice in a row now
it is confirmed the Empress will sit atop the throne
of next year ruling from her plant filled palace
five floors up in Berlin while she writes
the story of the Empress of Chaco
whose roots intersect at Triesto and Damasco
what a glorious mess it all is if only
we weren’t born with noses for dramatic
snowy winters we wouldn’t be so bloody
disappointed when it only rains