Our Man in Europe: DAVE DELACROIX: 'along the Watchtower: No. 14: "The Road to Rivergaro."

"...The road to Rivergaro."

(dedicato: Andrea Speroni.)


...The road to Rivergaro? Catch the wrong bus? It'll take you SOUTH of your mind. Don't depend on the weather, and the small villages that you pass...they have seen you 1,000 times before.

Out of your "Gulf Stream". thus, you arrive upon some distant shore...along with ALL your baggage - NO "Phoning Home E.T"- - and quite alone.

The Road to Rivergaro, SOMETIMES utters your name. At the "Galateria" where you hosted three young girls whose OWN road WITHIN Rivergaro has yet to begin?

You languish in Life's General ship. Your nubile Soldiers lap expectant at their iced cream cones.
There was some chat/variety TV show background.

(Just WHAT do they call these entertainments "TEMPESTA D'AMORE!"/As they DO: can we resurrect the NAZIS to wipe them out!?... (The T.V. Shows, that is?) ...

"Are you Jewish?" -she says?
"Am I Jewish?" - he says.

 "Well!?!" she demands.
"JEEZE!? I TORT I WUZ A MEXICANO!!!"
(the Talk show) ...

...Yakkin' in Italian, of course. All part of the whoosits!

 The GULF of General ship is an abyss. Pass an IDEA from one to another? It becomes distasteful, anathema, a Promise, a Switchblade, a JOB, a MISSION, 3 years at COLLEGE!!!... or an engagement ring (costing about €20,000) which YOU DON'T GOT!!!

......till, of course, you R ON the "Road to Rivergaro, where-when SHE or HE beckons you: "encora-encora!", that SIREN song ARRIBA!!! -Claims your name. To claim your fame.

...That road to Rivergaro.

 c davedelacroix/ 2025.