lubrification

to all my poets
with dry fingers
rub your hands together
until oil drips on paper
once again

s.s.

in due time

signora,
between austria and italy,
there is a section of the alps
called the semmering.
it is an impossibly steep,
very high part of the mountains.

they built a train track
over these alps
to connect vienna and venice.

they built these tracks before
there was a train in existence
that could make the trip.

they built it because they knew
someday the train would come.

-signor martini
(under the tuscan sun)


s.s.


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