Mario Savioni
1 min readOct 12, 2020

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You have to know that coordinates to what I feel you are. I bet you are irresistible, but perhaps it was your children. My mother had us and that was another ball of wax for her boyfriends. As children, we were judgmental. Men have a stay period based on sexual satisfaction vs. degree of difficulty, and time filters in the truth.

Your radiance competes with his ability to maintain his attention. I am good for about three dates and then I fear for my financial future. Every week, I have a bad day at work that makes me think the sky is falling. How can any man love someone under those circumstances? My sister said I need a partner, not someone who needs to be saved. I levitate around maudlin. It helps with lyrics and alleviates writer’s block. But, it’s a terrible conversationalist. Yesterday, I questioned Glück’s Nobel. Who wants to hear someone compare poet’s? Today, I plan to play music at a retirement home parking lot and sing. Imagine T.S. Eliot singing “The Hollow Men” in a parking lot. Yesterday, I ran 6.2 miles in the hills. I was like an old man in a parking lot. Men can’t imagine relationships when they worry about their hearts or see their futures in terms of salad bars and open stocks of a TJ Max. A woman is like a flower vase full of the most beautiful flowers. Not all of us have green thumbs or long hoses. Most of us, know nothing of horticulture. I have a rubber plant and cacti.

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Mario Savioni
Mario Savioni

Written by Mario Savioni

I work in photography, poetry, fiction, criticism, oils, drawing, music, condo remodeling and design. I am interested in catharsis. Savioni@astound.net.

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