Dimitris Leontzakos was born in Kavala in 1974 and lives in Thessaloniki. He studied music in Thessaloniki, Munich, Baden-Baden, Rome and New York. He works as a musician. He has three books of poetry published: Comic, Ta Tramakia ed.2001, Circe, out of the blue, Metaixmio ed. 2004 and Chinese, Nefeli ed. 2010. His poems have appeared in many literary journals, e-journals and anthologies in Greece and also USA and Italy in translation.
His collection of poems Tigers in aquarium is under publication.

email: dleontzakos@gmail.com

Soon after

I am not asking you to take drugs.
I don’t   urge you to light a cigarette.
I do beg you though to put your inhibitions aside;   
go crazy on Sunday.
Allow yourselves   to fry and eat french fries.
Don’t you owe it to yourself ?
Listen the poet at last, who warrantees that
« Madness is what  makes red tomatoes /
red and potatoes fried /
shadows  crisp like biscuits /
snow in slippers-grandma’s /
hands  feel  like steamy braids ».

 Sakis Serefas, poet, Eleutheros Typos newspaper, Jan. 2008