Michelangelo Homeboy, Blue
- Michelangelo Homeboy, BLUE
For years they sat— beside one another in his garage:
the hand-painted 16th-century Milanese wedding cart
and the scorching-red ’51 Crown Ford Victoria. Opening
the door from the kitchen he gazed in at them—
dropped a load of empties into the can
and waited—waited for the long-promised
Renaissance— of his poor, misunderstood
rock-a-billy soul—asleep in the loving embrace of
Pabst Blue Ribbon, He Stopped Loving Her Today
and a World—Golden! and brimming with good, good, good (say it!)
intention.
Robert Nazarene lives near St. Louis and is a graduate of Georgetown University. His poetry appears in Nimrod, Willow Review, 5 A.M., and other literary journals. He was selected as a finalist in The Atlanta Review’s 1998 International Poetry Competition.
