When I lived in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the only flora and fauna were the starling, the cockroach and the itchy-ball tree (took me until I was in my twenties to know that it was the sycamore tree).


Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.