Whose Day Is It Anyway?
Poet Diana di Prima offers alternative Italian-American heroes to Columbus.
“Whose Day Is It, Anyway?”
The Poet Mulls over Some of the Choices
Sacco and Vanzetti Day!
Sacco and Vanzetti Day.
Frank Capra of Happy Endings & Leftist Leanings Day!
That’s one we could use.
That’s one we could use.
Il Giorno di Martino Scorsese.
Il Giorno di Tomaso Centolella
Tutti giorni sono giorni di Sacco e Vanzetti
Il Giorno di Tomaso Centolella
Tutti giorni sono giorni di Sacco e Vanzetti
“It was a good fight
I was in good condition
Hello, Ma”
I was in good condition
Hello, Ma”
(I got your autograph at a grocery store on Spring St)
Back in the Day
It was Connie Francis Day
It was Connie Francis Day
Then a few years later it was
Julie Bovasso Day
Julie doing “The Maids”
in a tiny downtown theatre,
turning gender & theatre around/1952
Julie Bovasso Day
Julie doing “The Maids”
in a tiny downtown theatre,
turning gender & theatre around/1952
Whose day is it anyway?
Maybe we could rename it
every year–
Maybe we could rename it
every year–
Then maybe today would be
Tony La Russa Day?
Tony La Russa Day?
Carpe Diem, Tony!
You never know, you know?
Judy Canova Day
Her loud voice on the big wooden radio
Her loud voice on the big wooden radio
(or whatever that name was he said
week after week
I never figured it out–)
Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash
wherever you are”
I never figured it out–)
Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash
wherever you are”
And the grown-ups would turn off the radio
and we’d go to bed
and we’d go to bed
You choose
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