[New-Poetry] AMBITION

[Anny Ballardini]

The usual petite bourgeoisie education for well-educated girls, if to it you add a good slice of Christian religion, where sacrifice is the only way to be, then you end up writing and giving your poems to your enemy to sign them. Something similar. 
I tried to get rid of all this. I was so shy I could become violet in the middle of the street when I crossed it.
Because I think I have a great inner ambition, naturally given, and besides this, I was forced to reason out my Christianity because all those Christians were "Muslims"* in terms of sacrifice, and after the millionth time the same recidivous behavior was performed under my eyes, I forced myself, and still do, to try to limit my giving, or better, try to direct it to those who deserve it. 

*Muslim used with the meaning given by the Church in the Middle Ages 

  From: Helen Ruggieri 
  Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 5:09 PM


  I picked up on that word in ref. to K. Ryan - and I was thinking about how I was "taught" to 
  write poetry and ambition was not on the list.  We were to think small and in the small find
  the large (never the extra large).  But maybe we all see "ambition" as something else - 
  like I wanna be famous and so I hustle. 

  Any comments on ambition? 
  h
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