Mr Mascellani's Musings

Identity

One summer’s afternoon
in a suburb in Sydney
when the heat and the traffic have stopped
Angelina bowls a stolen cricket ball orange to Maria
While their other friends field

Smashed Valencias lie strewn all over the street
Their juices flowing
the girls will pick them up
put them in a bucket
and feed them to the pigs
at Maria’s uncle’s farm.

“Che cosa voi desider per pranz0 stasera”?
asks Angelina’s mother when she comes home
“Nothing mum I’m not hungry”

Angelina sits on the sofa
turns on the Ally McBeal episode
she taped the night before

She falls asleep and dreams of a cricket game
in which her school teacher’s breasts
bounce ala Baywatch
as she bowls a maiden over.