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Surrender to Our Explosive Democracy – Five Poems by Serena Piccoli from “gulp/gasp” (Moria Poetry 2022)

April 15, 2023
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The following 5 poems have never been published in magazines before. They are part of Serena Piccoli’s latest poetry collection “gulp\gasp” published by Moria Poetry (USA) in Autumn 2022, with a preface by poet, professor and essayist Adeena Karasick.

 

“An unstoppable flood of desire that is at once massively political, playful, negotiating contemporary local and global horrors, yet marked with an analytically observant, empathic regard for the interrelationship of lands, peoples, bodies and animals; invoking a texturally complex sense of humanity, interrogating all that we thirstily gulp down.”

Adeena Karasick, professor, poet, essayist (from the preface)

 

Poet David A. Romero says: “Serena Piccoli’s poetry is a hammer seeking to beat imperialist swords into ploughshares. Her harvest? A human compassion that crosses lines of gender, nation, and socioeconomic class. A reminder that the world is ours if we grow in peace and justice. Her poems cut with an incisive wit – – each line a blade separating the wheat from the chaff – – the truth from the bullshit excreted from the mouths of the powerful. Women, the exploited, the persecuted ethnic minorities, those affected by environmental destruction and imperialism, these are the people she values – – these are the people she stands with.”

 

“Piccoli’s poetry kicks ass and stomachs” Gabor Gyukics, poet

 

“Serena’s poetry is a slap of light. Her poetry is refined, intense, generous, it is inside our world, a world that fights for freedom, that cannot stand self-righteous moralisms, a greedy world that is going towards its catastrophe. Her words have a smiling voice, they cause restorative insomnia in those who are indifferent.”

Sandro Sardella, poet and painter

 

Ani Bradea, poet and journalist: “Her overflowing creativity, her commitment to social justice, her subtle irony and bitterness along with her imaginary poetic visions are all present in her poems. Her message is urgent and brave. She is a voice of this world, a voice that attracts our attention on social and political issues that we all must face. The poem “we’re the best\fuck the rest” is bold and daring. We should all listen to what Serena screams. Beyond all this commitment lies a delicate and pure soul that moves the reader.”

*.   *.  *

we’re the best\fuck the rest

we’re the civilized

we kill civilians for their own sake

we own democracy

we’ll sell it to you at a high price

you spread propaganda\we spread information

we rule and divide you

if we say you lie then it’s true

if you say we lie then it’s fake

whoever is near you – dead or alive – is our enemy

a baker who serves you bread must be killed

surrender to our explosive democracy

we’re charming\with bright teeth

we’ve created you\you’re now our enemy

but – hey – we warned you, buddy

we shape democracy\with our steel teeth

*****

 

I used to write love poems

I used to write love poems

to flowers/birds/my fiancée

but their grinding teeth have been too loud

sitting at their luxury table of lies and nails

their capitalist jaws laughing at us

4 incisors of exporting democracy

4 canines of oppression

4 incisors of brainwashing

4 molars of slavery

the prolonged grinding and grating of

4 premolars of hypocrisy

4 molars of stolen land

4 premolars of stereotypes

4 molars of injustice

I used to write love poems

but their grinding teeth

have been screaming and imposing orders

all our lives

with their

receding gums of hunger/malnutrition/poverty

cavities of police brutality

a crown of classism

a tongue for propaganda as their lingua franca

grinding, gritting with their

palate for coups

roots of state racism

the bad breath of disablism

saliva of male chauvinism

And no

no wisdom teeth at all

But

I have a tongue too and a voice and hands that write

I’m not your subject

I’m not your little fish

Keep your bloody teeth off my land/life/love/body

I don’t want a white father state

I don’t want your decrepit views on how I must lead my life

I don’t want your classist racist misogynist colonialist white

suprematist liberticidal oppression

I don’t wanna help you preserve the billionaire class buffet

or those in power who consume us to starvation

Julian showed us the diamonds decorating your table

saying

Quieta non movere et mota quietare

don’t move things that are at rest, and put at rest things that move

I still write love poems

and I also move

non ducor, duco

I am not led, I lead my life

I’ll never rest under your bloody bite

of torture and impunity

and your spit

of fake erosive rule

 

*****

 

greetings from autumn 2020

 

2 prominent Italians are returning their legion of dis honour awards

– France’s highest –

in protest at president Macron’s decision to give the award to his friend the Egyptian president al-Sisi

 

a good friend closes his eyes to

kidnapping\torture\killing

of

students\researchers\protesters

and other human rights violations

 

the 2 Italians accuse al-Sisi of being

objectively complicit

as head of state

in the criminal behaviour committed by his men

 

I turn the page and the rage.

Think of Giulio Regeni

and read on

 

an assistant professor in US has been called by colleagues

miss missy

honey hon

sugar pumpkin

cutie darling

girl ma’am

student secretary

sweetheart sweetie

 

I turn the rage

 

UK pm Johnson is increasing Britain’s investment in defence to its highest level

since the Cold War

this is our chance to end the era of retreat

transform our armed forces

bolster our global influence

defend our people 

and way of life

 

a woman in her late 20s suffering from severe ME\chronic fatigue

has lost her benefits while looking for a flat to share with her fiancée in England

1 year quest and no penny from the state

her fiancée has lost her job – due to management of the pandemic

can’t find one

and of course no penny from the state that imposed the lockdowns

 

the young woman keeps being rejected

 

we don’t accept tenants on benefits

only professionals are accepted by the mortgage company

 

and the lit mag is asking me to write a poem

about my hopes for the new year

 

*****

 

those 2 hands

 

to the Kurds facing extradition 

from Sweden and Finland

 

once upon a time a basket seller

entertained his waiting clients with a folktale:

2 hands of 2 different bodies

were considered respected\peaceful

jewels were worn on those fine pale fingers

who wrote different languages

one day the 2 shook hands with the Ghost of the Fleas

they moved and bowed to show approval of his acts

 

all fleas were inhabited by the shadows of bloodthirsty men

the Ghost always held a cup for blood drinking

a penumbra wandering and killing

needed to suppress shadows to expand his powers

one day the 2 hands signed the long memorandum

of his ghastly demands

 

they were ready to give up the shadows of their own people

for the Ghost to have them drown in muddy waters

but the 2 hands, the fleas and the Ghost didn’t know

that the only thing that never drowns is a shadow

*****

greetings from summer 2022

at 6 am every day I drive down to Marciana Marina

to watch 10 different species of fish

watching my goofy swimming

 

Elba Island and its blooming bougainvillaea

Roman ruins overlooking the azure sea

an old piazza and a little church perched on mountains

Beauty makes us resist

1000 miles from here

Tony Blair is being made a knight

his co-invasion of Iraq in 2003 ushered hundreds of thousands

into death and chaos

The constant fear

is the spring behind their

lawmaking\warmaking

 

B&B cast Saddam as a global threat

who possessed weapons of mass destruction

After 19 years has anyone found such weapons?

The constant fear

to oppress us all

imposed by the propaganda

of masters and arse-lickers

The fish in front of me

are whistling and wondering

what the hell I’m thinking

 

Tony Blair’s becoming knight in Windsor Castle

a few miles away from Belmarsh prison

where Julian Assange has been ill for years

and stuck in arbitrary imprisonment

unconvicted

for political reasons

for revealing B&B’s crimes

Anger makes us speak up

 

us and them

they’re feasting

while we’re fasting

we’ll eat the rich

while we’re watching fish

we’ll eat the capitalist prophet

while he’s dying to make profit

they’re fishing for our data

we’ll feed them with fatal feta

they’ll be starving

they’re not used to it

 

while bingeing on a fake buffet

choking on pork stew

they’ll tell us to obey again

but many will refuse

they’ll tell us to trust their mandate

but – gutted and disgusted – we’ll deconstruct it

The blue bay is too beautiful

to be missed – again – for their oppression

Beauty makes us survive

and you think fish are useless

 

*****

 

 

 

Serena Piccoli (she/her) is an Italian poet, photographer, playwright and artistic director.

Her poems and photos have been featured in magazines and galleries worldwide.

Her forthcoming book “gulp\gasp” was published by Moria Poetry (USA) in Autumn 2022 with a preface by Adeena Karasick. Her chapbook “silviotrump” (http://www.moriapoetry.com/piccoliebook.pdf) was also published by Moria Poetry.

Serena writes both in English and Italian about social political issues.

Twitter: @piccoli_serena

www.serenapiccoli.com

 

Cover artwork by Mubeen Kishany

 

Tags: agencyanti-capitalismdenuncing imperialismEgyptGreat Britainimmigrant rightsKurdspolitical poetryracismSerena Piccolisocially engaged poetrySwedenUSA
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    • the dreaming machine – issue number 12
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