Naxos
By John Sakkis
move if you can makeout her mouth sort of miming to B.B. happy birthday
and handing him a bottle which is to illustrate the progress of civilization up
to the present day that I was there when bought in Greek four packets of
Karelia's Virginia and brought back a big bottle fit for treason, stratagem, and
spoils knocking the ball against the little house where I was born beginning
to see that "two ugly make a pretty" moving upwards of a crooked village
road not ten miles from the mud baths we read about as well as a foundry,
coal-breaker, machine-shops, and light-house
Copyright Credit: John Sakkis, "Naxos" from The Islands. Copyright © 2015 by John Sakkis. Reprinted by permission of Nightboat Books.
Source: The Islands (Nightboat Books, 2015)