Dal cd The Last Days of Inhumanity
(Ars Publica, 2006), la traccia omonima.
Musica: F. Della Monica –
testo: M. Palladini (ascolta il file mp3)
The last days of inhumanity
The last days of inhumanity
I wanted to spend in the no
care home,
solitary sanatorium or
ghostly academy,
but it’s all booked.
Like Estragon,
then I’ll spend the
time of sand
easing away the skysails
toward the apathetical seas,
removing myself from the
empty centre,
and greeting the
chaosmic Avatàr.
Between its breath and my
nothing
it falls down the
stone shadow. Be quiet and still.
Yes, setting ourselves
against the pigs:
as many persons,
actually very few,
on the wrong side,
persisting
in the italincorrect
demon
or in the refuse
thinking.
Anachronistical always
anagogical
the rendezvous,
anyway, is only put off,
cauterized the little soul,
neutralized Christmas
we’ll drink a sangría with true backtaste
of metaphysical
change over the coals.
You and me, remember,
after thousand and one
nights
the next year just in
Baghdad.
*
Written in January 1991, at the beginning
of the Gulf War.
Marco Palladini