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
Pale American Girls
Pale American Girls
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