NOI STIAMO DALLA PARTE DEI "NEGRI" DI ROSARNO from "Republic" - Sunday, 10/01/2010
IN ITALY ghetto
THIS IS NOT A MAN '
Adriano Sofri Again , consider again
If this is a man,
As a toad in January,
that starts when it's dark and foggy
And back when fog and darkness,
that he fell to the edge of a road,
smells of kiwi and orange Christmas
knows three languages \u200b\u200band did not speak any, which counts in mice
his dinner, which has two
slippers Creative Commons,
An asylum application,
A degree in engineering, a photograph,
And hidden under the cardboard, and sleep on cartons of
Rognetta,
Under a roof of asbestos, O
homeless
Fa fire with the rubbish,
who sits in his place,
Nowhere,
And if it comes out after the shooting,
"made a mistake!"
course I was wrong,
The Black Man
the misery black
Del lavoro nero, e da Milano,
Per l’elemosina di un’attenuante
Scrivono grande: NEGRO,
Scartato da un caporale,
Sputato da un povero cristo locale,
Picchiato dai suoi padroni,
Braccato dai loro cani,
Che invidia i vostri cani,
Che invidia la galera,
(Un buon posto per impiccarsi)
Che piscia coi cani,
Che azzanna i cani senza padrone,
Che vive tra un No e un No,
Tra un Comune commissariato per mafia
E un centro di Ultima Accoglienza,
E quando muore, una colletta
Dei suoi fratelli a un euro all’ora
Lo rimanda oltre il mare, oltre il deserto
Alla sua terra – “A quel paese!”
forget that this was,
That this is now,
What state is this, your saggetti
Reread the Problem, You who are taken away
Safe, Congo, Guatemala,
and write the warmth or from here nor there, neither
goodness, the stuff of Caritas, or
Brutality, the stuff of Home Affairs,
warm, like a nightcap,
And take my eyes off this
That is not a woman
from this that What is a man not a woman
And the children, if children are far apart,
And pray that your new born
not twist their faces from you.