by Alex Valente
Original Italian by Alessandra Racca (1979-), from Bastarde Senza Gloria
Jackets in August
coloured, behind the glass
reminding me that soon
summer will be over
You’re so cute,
jackets,
so cruel
I hope a freak heatwave
cancels autumn, winter and your usefulness
that a car, madman at the wheel,
crashes into the display, running over mannequins and you
ruining you irreparably
if the world must end
may it happen before you are bought
that a rich Slav buys you all
and betrayed by the woman you were to be gifted
riddles you with a kalashnikov
know that
I will never want you:
I easily see that you are uncomfortable and too light
to ride my bike
in the autumn-winter of the city.
You’re cute
but you steal summer.
The Norwich Radical 
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