Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "ILLUMINATA DELLA LUNA."

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "Illuminata della Luna." (Light of the Moon)


PRIMA! (first)
Illuminata della Luna.
SECONDI!
Il passione, amore; doppa?
....And that's where everything
went South!
PREGNANT.

Somehow DAD found out.
Uncanny?
MOM? -Estranged in the Bahamas
sent E-mail missiles.
Normal.
Fratelli/sorrelli went
positively Ballistic!
"Is he BLACK?"
"What if he were?" -U provoke.
"For god's sake!" -the family agreed,
"Don't tell Grandma!"
...So nobody does.

At the Christening,
held
at the Basilica of the Blessed Virgin
in Modica, Sicily,
everyone is AMAZED:

The kid is half Chinese,
named LUNA,
son of a ships Cook outta Catania!
It's a disaster...

"Where's the Pappa at?" -she gets quizzed.
"Ah dunno.." she responds. "Hong Kong?"
Yet TWO of her siblings
begin lessons in MANDARIN

...with an eye to the future.



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