Warm, radiant afternoon after days and days of rainy gloom,
the girls bursting with born-again good intention.
“I want to eat more vegetables. Carrots and broccoli and green beans,”
Giulia announces from her car seat.
Isabella jumps in: “I want to drink only milk, NOT chocolate milk.”
Giulia: “I’ll sleep in my bed all night.”
Isabella: “Hey, I know! Let’s listen to the kind of jazz with no singing.”
Ornette Coleman,
two helpings of spinach.
JOHN GENNARI is Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. His most recent book, Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017.
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