On your nostril a piercing sparkles between contraceptive and aspirin. <br />You've middle long red curls, pale face, a little dear bulbous nose; <br />Green eyes, a stroke of shadow eye and sharp chin; <br />A white ironed coat but naked forearms, a badge with a snake. <br />Above all you've a melancholy expression. <br />For me you prepared a coal tar paste by an old-style prescription. <br />The dermatitis in my elbow healed after only two hours. <br />As Romeo in Mantua I wanted to buy the poison from a needy druggist. <br />You were there: we both aren't tragic characters but you smile too little. <br />You smiled only when I told you some stories. <br />I remained alone to smile with my coal tar paste.<br /><br />Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-a-girl-druggist/
