THE FATE OF SIPHACES

Titus Livius, against Polybius, takes pleasure

in explaining the fate of Syphax.

The chronicle: we recount the bare facts

as Govoni would do with his satisfied flowers.

THE ALIEN

Headlights flash at the exit of the Milan ring road

a screeching noise of impact on the ground burns the ground

it’s not the usual flooding of the Seveso river that creates the sound of a hurricane

an alien has landed.

FROM THE EURO TO THE NEURO

I am still typing, looking for a phoned rhyme,

a rhyme that sometimes comes, sometimes stays in bed, never entices,

in some cases suckles, victim of the bitter bravado,

of keeping me humble scribbler on the bill.

A BLIND MAN DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF THE LIGHT

We all know it clearly, a blind man does not know how to turn off the light,

all the blind people in the world do not know how to turn off the light of art,

and, even if every electricity company went bankrupt, art would continue to shine,

darkening the accounts of nomadic supercapitalism.

MALA TEMPORELLA CURRUNT

Mala temporella currunt, the times of the recommended artist,

without a return receipt to a bloody style,

the times of editorial buns, worthy epigones of Cucchismo,