Arianna Manetti: A Short Story

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If I had a dollar for all the times someone didn’t call me by my real name
I would be a millionaire and people think that it is just a game
Macaroni, Ariana Grande even Tomato Face
They always find something for my name to be replaced

My name is Arianna Manetti
What is yours?
Don’t dare call me spaghetti
I will walk out that door

Because I am Italian, of course I eat pasta everyday and make lots of pizza for large buffets
Because I am Italian I must be part of the mafia and because I am Italian I must have lived in Rome

Just because I am Italian that doesn’t mean I need an accent
I don’t say….
‘A Spaghetti, a Lasagna, a Pizza’
Please don’t make me start an argument

I believe that you won’t ever call me
Arianna Manetti instead of Macaroni

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