Standing firm, and More messages to cheer me up

Standing firm

A Hard Day's Night

But it's all right

Far from the Fight

Mr. Shankly

Standing blankly

Is so frankly

Unanointed

Disappointed

And Disjointed

For I resist

And rise my Fist

And still persist

Vera da Pozzo

Paris , 23rd September 2026

Poem above and photo below by me.

Beauté en banlieue.

Even in the ugliest places I can find Beauty, like this shiny Moon at 8 P. M.

When I was finally back to Paris, I felt I would have found more messages to cheer me up, so I had a look at Morrissey Central and I found a new lovely family memory shared by Morrissey and also a new George Rae's fan made video: the Chicago live version of The Youngest was the Most Loved starring actor, singer and model Sal Mineo, a Sicilian born in America.

As the Irish people, Italian and especially Sicilian people had to emigrate to the United States in order to find a better life. Proud of his Sicilian roots, Sal Mineo kept his family name without changing it for his career, and he boldly defied his times, living the life he intended to live, until Bad Luck and a Knife hit him on a sad night in 1976.

Another star who died when I was not even born, but (how strange is life!) I can proudly say that, in a time span of a quarter-century, Sal Mineo and I, we both worked with Italian composer Giancarlo Menotti.

Poem, photo and article by me, of course. It was amusing to play with rhymes and to quote both The Beatles and The Smiths (Morrissey has lyrics for every situation) in order to describe my day and how I stand firm and stay happy, even if Mr. Shankly and his Min(ch)ions (an anglo-sicilian joke that Sal Mineo would easily get) do and say all the worst, stupidest things they can in their vile and vain attempts to hurt me.

I am deeply thankful to a Good and very Special Friend for his kind words of support.

(C) Vera da Pozzo

(C) Italy is Mine

(C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living

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