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II
Adeodato Piazza Nicolai / Saro Marretta / Leonardo Zanier
Now you are nailed to the chair
with a high back
like the king of the battles you lost
and I ask if you did right to emigrate
(the final joke you pulled on your “loved” ones)
to this land of carpet-like lawns,
“Oh why do you keep on asking?
Isn’t enough that my conscience claws
night and day?”
Bending the head you raise the fist
to make it clear that here you die
only if they kill you behind
your back.
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