Pale American Girls
Pale American Girls
Pale American girls
One day will be able to say
They were in Italy
When they were pale American girls
They will be American women then
By which time some color will have risen
Into their faces
Thanks to a few births divorces deaths
They will not look at the pictures they took
When they were pale American girls
Sitting behind their parents
Looking at their phones
On the train from Rome to Florence
Italy a green blur in the window
It will become something they will have done
They who will always have enough money
To have traveled by train in Italy once
When they were young
Pale American girls