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Tuscan Afternoon
Storm clouds roll overhead,
Blocking out normally turquoise sunny skies.
Red tile rooftops,
Narrow stair-stepped alleyway,
Distant seashore:
Straight from a painting.
She sits elegant at a wrought iron table
Between slender Italian cypresses
Nursing an empty wineglass—
Preoccupied.
Why the furrowed brow, dear lady?
Does not the charming setting
evoke a smile?
Is it some romantic ship gone wrong?
Was merely the sun too bright
moments before
And you forget to relax
under the shaded cloud?
Perhaps some deep, dark, existential crisis
Born of despairing sighs at midnight
under a full Tuscan moon?
Or a nagging unpleasant dream
just out of reach?
Or maybe your expression is default:
A baseline set too low
Unwittingly moody
Parenthetically pathetic
Causing strangers to wonder,
Asking, pestering:
"Why are you so sad?"
"Is everything ok?"
"Are you in trouble?"
When you're nothing of the sort,
Only contemplating seriously
What you'll have for dinner
Which bills need payment
And whether God exists.
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