Seated at Gina’s bar
I listen to the time passing by
like an old movie
everything is always the same
the hot chocolate with cream
the ice cream
and Armando
witness and guardian
of generations changing
“I used to see them
with short pants
now their children
are taller than them”
parents or grandparents
but always back and forth
on Via Gen. A. Papa
femoral artery
of the old town
that evolved gradually
and never ceases to fascinate
the hurried tourist
of the past of the present of all time
