A Fifth Poem in Rome (parts 1-4 written Summer 2008)

what rolls in rome is this:

I remember when I was just a little boy, living in Rome
rambling on the Via Rasella...

taking pictures of Mercedes Benz with my camera phone
that was bought for me at Christmas

I remember gelato && I remember pizza

I remember drunk men singing "My Way" in the Piazza

I remember many things - the drinking done along the banks of the tiber

champagne && sex in the street

the inexecutable turns and dashes of a day blinking

blinkered

lingering

on the palatine hill
thinking of Seutonius and the Tax Office.