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Welcome to my website. I’ve been writing a series of sonnets based around the drama series, The Sopranos. Here’s an example:
From: The Sopranos
Leotardo
At Ellis Island surnames were lost
with a slip of the pen, histories altered – a letter lifted and replaced with a smirk.
No longer the noble Leonardo, too full
of itself, too ‘up’. You will now be associated
not with genius but with sweat and girl’s crotches.
Welcome to America.
Hate is a gun, a hard guarantee.
He is alert to sarcasm, mild jokes,
remembers himself as the barefoot boy
at the checkpoint. The trigger is a comma
a comforting pause before blood and bone
finito the sarcasm – Jesus, that tone.