I will love everyone

If just for a second.

On the crowded bus in Rome

I observe my compatriots.

A woman with a big yellow skirt

Is holding a giant panino like a fan.

A guy hops in

He’s carrying a fat leather bag

Wearing headphones

And a pearl necklace.

I decide to stare at him.

Remind me, why do I hate this city?

So much beauty everywhere

And nights are infinitely nicer,

I sleep like a baby,

The song of cicadas

In my ears.

Vacanze Romane are one thing

Growing up here another

But that might just suck

Anywhere.