My Kingdom For a Lick of Raven (Ennio Morricone Tribute)

fast fiction

Jul 29

Ennio Morricone is dead. The Italian composer scored soundtracks to “A Fistful of Dollars” “Crime and Dissonance” and “Escalation”, the 1968 film where this tribute manifested.

In a shade of androgynous spit we split the scene lickety
Luca Lamboghetti, putrid breath of a Sardinian transvestite
Pays his knuckles with kisses
An iron fist for the missus
Obscured by Tyrrhenian mist
Lamboghetti flirts a pastel kerchief
“Wear it on your face, Hagen”
My kingdom for a lick of Raven.

We snake down Saviola scavenging a cleavage peek at Raven standing mistletoe beneath the whorehouse light
Hotfoot down Manini, crotch first
Erections in plain sight
And Luca Lamboghetti swings his chromatic wand
The scene all escalation and glitter
Putrid criminal drowning in a shallow pond
“You’re an accomplice, Hagen”
My kingdom for a lick of Raven.

Newspaper says Miss Raven is dead
The rigor and the mortis stare me and Lamboghetti down
Hanging left on Ianuzzi, espresso crowd all fury and spit
And me and Lamboghetti putrid trust-fund kids pissing kidneys in the mist
Newspaper says Ennio Morricone is dead
Crime, dissonance, hell to pay
And Lamboghetti, “This bullet’s for you, Hagen”
My kingdom for a lick of Raven