#The Lost Parents I Genitori Perduti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: I Genitori Perduti
The dove-white gullson the wet lawn in Washington Square in the early morning fogeach a little ghost in the gloamingSouls transmigrated maybefrom Hudsonโs shrouded shoresacross all the silent yearsโWhich oneโs my maybe mafioso father in his so white suit and black shoesin his real estate office Forty-second Street or at the front table wherever he wentโWhich my dear lost mother with faded smileโฆ
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