[New-Poetry] Sonnet: La Malcontenta

[Anny Ballardini]

Ok, then I understood it right.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Anny. I know what the word means.
>
> Hal
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> "Those who cast the ballots decide nothing.
> Those who count the ballots decide everything."
>                           --Joseph Stalin
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> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Jaysoos, Hal.
>> I would change the title. Malcontenta has a naughty hue, something close
>> to stubborn and proud, never satisfied, disobedient.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Sonnet: La Malcontenta
>>>
>>> Nowadays, she is away a lot, away from home, from her kids,
>>>  who've learned to deal, to take care of themselves and each
>>> other. She loads her little truck with her wares and drives off,
>>> waving into the rear-view mirror. She tweets them from little
>>>
>>> towns in the countryside where she (on good days) sells her
>>> wares, comes back empty. Her oldest son in Afghanistan, she
>>> tweets him too. He always says, "im ok mom," but she wonders,
>>> and wonders how he could be. She voted for Obama too,
>>>
>>> but now she wonders. On the road a lot and sometimes over
>>> night if the truck isn't empty, she'd like to be home with her kids
>>> but business is business, and if she doesn't sell, the kids don't
>>> eat. There are men . . . well, yes, there have to be men, right?
>>>
>>> The kid in Afghanistan, he tweets her with "hey mom im dyng."
>>> It's the last one. She tweets him a hug and a kiss.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hal
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>> star!
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