Black and white photos line the walls
of the local Italian trattoria.
Young men in uniform, women in
between-the-war dresses, do not smile
as I drink red table wine from the
Abruzzo. No jobs and our boys are dead,
their eyes say. Sober as a new widow,
certain as a premonition, their sepia tones
tell all: it can happen to you.
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