DISPOSABLE
of Pina Piccolo
(for the migrant workers from Acron,
August 2, 2010)
Il nastro scorreva così si evitava
di dover muovere i piedi
Si andava veloci
e arrivavano
mountains and mountains
of things that were not
either buried or burned
but that would have been
recycled and reused
(or so they said)
The tape was rolling and wore
carried the paper, carrying the plastic
water bottles crushed
aluminum container
with the remains of the sauce dell'Ipercoop
glass of bitter orange
which states your stand out from the pack
and still and paper
but under
look, a strange shape
soft and smelly
that feels even with the mask
two money
usa e getta
che ti danno ogni mattina
la tocchi con la mano inguantata
un usa e getta che dura due settimane
che non protegge granché
ti ritrovi il corpo coperto da macchioline
un altro si è beccato l’epatite
Ma guarda bisogna essere proprio scemi
per buttare scarpe vecchie
nella campana del vetro
una vecchia scarpa di pelle
con qualcosa andata a male dentro
Schifato la sollevi tenendola con un pezzo di carta
per decidere da che parte smistarla
forse è organico
buttala tra le altre schifezze
la cacca non proprio pulita
che sfugge sempre all’occhio dell’ispettore
Two weeks ago
there was a dead cat
but something inside your body
recognizes it as relative
and send out a cry
A severed foot!
A foot of one who once walked
trampled on the street, stepped on the dust
who knows how far did
perhaps how much you have made yourself
to the slopes of the desert after the Land Rover
with forty clinging on
you have downloaded unceremoniously
and without the comfort of water
and thought you die
like a soul abandoned
And to think that in a mangrove
to your country a little 'shadow sempre la trovavi
E poi di acqua salata ne hai vista tanta
e per giorni e giorni
distese marine
che ti chiamavano l’acqua nello stomaco
e pensare che in lingua ewe
Togo, il nome del tuo paese significa
‘andare all’acqua”
e tu invece ne andavi a un’altra
to chase a dream
transformed into the chain of the tape.
And now you find yourself enslaved
even if one hundred and fifty
say they have abolished
slavery
sold a brother
you threat of voodoo
if you talk to journalists
if you talk to the union
if you say that the payroll
you get half of what you've worked
If you say that in the civilized Imola
not have either illness or vacations or thirteenth
Vabene that if you receive something in an envelope
the streets or at the bar
What you have to sign blank sheets
and take you away Timesheet hours
Tell me. Oh foot that come from afar,
if this is life
tell me if this is worthy of
a human being.
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