Journal of Italian Translation

Adria Bernardi/Raffaello Baldini
you’ve always got to complain about something, you,
now eat those eggs, and be quiet a second
tonight I’d like to see some television
for a change, A Thousand Dreams is on,
they say someone is going to win ten million
if they call you on the phone, yes, I understand,
but even if they called, you wouldn’t pick it up,
you never answer, you make me run and get it,
here, here we are, they’re starting, this one here,
there’s all possible ways, the way she talks,
you can’t understand anything, she mumbles,
and this one, he’s even worse,
he’s always sneering, and people like him,
people don’t understand anything, and now,
what are they doing? I say that,
what are they racking their brains about? you do stuff,
they win all this money, and you, you numskull,
every year you’re not happy until you march down
and pay, everything-on-the-up-and-up,
the television fee, which then they give us, look what they give us,
look at all that stuff, and they just keeping going on and on, no, no,
that’s enough,
I’m already sick and tired of it, come on now, what time is it?
nine-thirty? really? nine-thirty already?
well, you know what I have to say to you? I’m going to bed.
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