Perpetual Pale Ass

 

Don’t let “Iannucci” fool you / I was the only one / with an English mother / out of the lot /

See? /---“out of the lot”--- / Who fucking says that / in a 1985 Italian-American / IROC racing,

Aquanet toxic / Long Island / ? / I was the glow stick / basking on Jones Beach / laughing

/ at the Frozen Fruit guy / “Frozen Fruit bars! Snickers! Milky Way! Chipwich!” / poor guy /

combing the shoreline for a wave / with a heavy Styrofoam chest / until I looked at my chest /

& stopped laughing / perpetual pale ass / a zinc oxide / alabaster embarrassment / sunburn

blisters on one shoulder / bordered by Bain de Soleil / second generation Neapolitan sisters

/ bilingual / talking turbo Italian / fast / too fast / for my half Brum bum / I just knew

curse words / thanks to dad / broken English / so mangled / he sounded smashed / he’d say

“hoppy East” when it was Easter / & / "hoppy Torky’s Give” when it was Thanksgiving / Jesus

Christ / or Gesu Cristo / ? / I’m all fucked / daughter of two immigrants / mum has a green card /

& / padre / a soldier citizen / Vietnam vet / Cam Ranh Bay / Yeah / We gotta get out of this place

/ Wait until the war is over & we’re both a little older, the unknown Soldier / Yeah / all in all we’re just

a-nother brick / in  / their / border wall.

 

 

 

*Italic lines are lyrics taken from The Animals, The Doors, and Pink Floyd.