IF THE VERSES DO NOT PROTEST

If the verses don’t protest about the nature of Italy’s excise

taxes on taxes, against nature, we will end up like Britain’s Brexit

with petrol skyrocketing we’ll have to dinghy our way out of the EU

and, alas!, we shall be forced indeed, to invade Tripolitania again.

If the verses do not protest about the nature of amnesties

ante I build illegally and post I get a seven-storey villa,

as if Snow White ate the apple and, when dead, met the seven dwarfs,

we’ll rate a hundred days in sheep’s clothing better than one day as lions.

If the verses do not protest about the nature of the referenda abrogandi

with lower turnout than All Saints’ Day,

– every referendum was repealed by the intervention of the two chambers of swindlers-

we will have to plead for the Swiss import of a referendum abrogating 945 crooks.

If the verses do not protest about the nature at the parking Italy of millions of non-EU citizens

we will find ourselves, in ten years’ time, with an increase of 60,000,000 American citizens,

and, in Milan, Florence, and Rome, with 200,000,000 Asian and African refugees,

the American President will be a lawyer from Matera and the Pope a Bedouin from the Kalahari.

If the verses do not protest about the nature of the waters of the seas of Taranto and Crotone

torn by the carcinogenic fumes of hyper-capitalism,

we will hold a big party, open to all, at the hospital,

inviting 80% of the inhabitants of our poisoned Southern Italy.

If the verses do not protest about the nature of Belen’s ass,

media interest with skyrocketing audience and consequent auditel meltdown,

the increase in desire will have a yen-like contraction,

and we’ll be forced to yell ‘we were assholes’ at 10,000 decibels.

If the verses don’t protest, I feel like a Titanic in a titanic struggle,

bitten by a Bic pen without a tetanus shot,

rusting at the tip, the tip of the iceberg,

dry of ink like an Erg distributor.

Ivan Pozzoni

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