(Be a nonconformist for a day)
If you’re sitting around being bored on a Sunday
And not really looking forward to Monday
Put on your sandals and be of good cheer
Just take a walk by the Venice Pier
You’ll see girls with bare asses
Dogs wearing sun glasses
A lady quite weighty hula-hooping at eighty
Girls getting hustled by fellows much muscled
A kid selling roses, a man dressed like Moses
Guys doing flips with rings through their noses
Then sit yourself down at a sidewalk cafe
And while you’re sipping a Cafe au Lait
Reflect on what you’ve seen and heard
Unwind, relax and enjoy the absurd
Geraldine Forer Spagnoli