Saturday, November 28, 2020
Stranèsis dal furlàn
Imprest
An imprest is what
in Italian
passes for anticipo
and in fact comes
from the Italian
imprestare
Imprest is also
an archaic spelling
for impressed.
but none of these
help us undestand
that imprest
simply stands for
the lowly Friulian
tool.
Trist
Trist ti sòs
se bon no ti sòs.
No coma'l taliàn,
che triste ti
permèt di èsi
sensa èsi trist.
Luliania
The reference
of course
is of the lowly sausage,
much lower in rank
than that of
a salame
or of a mušèt
—but oh what romance
it evokes,
what minuets
under the chandeliers
with all eyes
on Princess Luliania
and all hearts pounding for her
—Oh!
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