In one of the unfilmed films
Of Federico Fellini:
On a very thin ice floe
In a glass of martini
The hero is lying upon the heroine
The heroine is on heroin1
And a double solid road mark
Run between them
Between them
A second ago it has hot,
And now between them
It snows in the Kilimanjaro2
Cartridges in the store,
With eyes on Visine3
And the poisoned air
Is swallowed greedily
In vain you think about death
I want to find a letter in an empty envelope
And recite it to you
In one of Federico Fellini's unfilmed films:
The snow lays in the Kilimanjaro
The hero is lying upon the heroine
The heroine is on heroin
And the poisoned air
Is swallowed greedily
1. the female of 'hero' vs. the drug2. an African mountain, also a movie based on a Hemingway's novel3. eye drops made of tetryzoline, used by criminals due to its alleged potential to cause fatal injury