If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,Thered Be a Whole Lot...
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Milan -- Astonished strollers, tourists and Milanese in the Piazza del Duomo could hardly believe their eyes at the sight of comedian Jerry Lewis cavorting in and about the famed square. Only it wasn't the Hollywood star making a surprise visit to the Italian city, it was just a young Italian imitator, Adriano Celentano, the spitting (and leaping) image of the zany American comic. This photo gives you a pretty good idea of why they are calling the 18-year-old Celentano the "Jerry Lewis of Italy." Look out, now, here he comes! Adriano says he has solved the parking problem by converting this tricycle. It may look a trifle silly, but it's practical - or is it? Says Adriano: "I like it, I like it. It gets me where I wanna go, so there." (1956)
My Indigo
It's late. I've come
to find the flower which blossoms
like a saint dying upside down.
The rose won't do, nor the iris.
I've come to find the moody one, the shy one,
downcast, grave, and isolated.
Now, blackness gathers in the grass,
and I am on my hands and knees.
What is its name?
Little sister, my indigo,
my secret, vaginal and sweet,
you unfurl yourself shamelessly
toward the ground. You burn. You live
a while in two worlds
at once.
--Li-Young Lee
