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Aquadub

Nothing at all
Not even the ad
Here on my screen
Conveys the slightest inkling of humanity
I had seen you
In a flowered and checked dress
Blue like the water
Of the aquarium that
They brought me when I was little
And I don't remember anything
Only the blonde cashier
And the flying fish
And then my mother saying:
Don't touch anything
Don't touch
Anything
Anything at all
 

Upside down

Much more than the ground beneath my feet
Here I miss voices and the city
And I miss you, because I haven't seen you
Since I've been here
 
We went up before the shift ended
To the factory roof to see
Whether from up there we could finally see
The one who got us fired
 
The first day he took off almost hurriedly
With us above and the others arguing below,
But whose faces are those above the roof
And what do they have to look at?
 
Then the patrol car came tearing in
And a little boy waved from a window
Before night fell,
The television crew set up shop
 
But no, I'm not coming down
Not even the television
Can make me come down
No, I'm not coming down
You go ahead
And go on television
 
Like passers-by during a sudden downpour
Crammed into a doorway's only shelter
The people downstairs crushed themselves
Around the eye of the broadcast.
 
'A relative of mine was up there on the roof.'
'Outsourcing's to blame as far as I'm concerned'
Everyone wanted the microphone
To say something on television
 
And while darkness sank into the streets
And onto the gates and railings of Turin
And the light had gone out on the balcony
Where that little boy was
 
I thought for an instant that I saw you
Among the others showing solidarity down there
But it wasn't you and I stayed up
On the roof camping out
 
But no, I'm not coming down...
 
Days and nights have gone by since that day
And there's traffic in the streets again
Only rarely is there someone who lifts their gaze
And watches me watching
 
My comrades have gone, too, and I understand them
It isn't so easy to stay
If there's someone waiting for you
If you have someone you can tell things to
 
And so, all alone now, I keep watch on my own
And I no longer care about getting down or going back
Or even about knowing
Who got us fired
 
Unchanging days go by and I don't count them
Let them take away the breath of those who follow them closely
I'll stay here and, for now, make do
With a little boy's wave
 

Twenty thousand leagues (under the seas)

The first was the Cape of Good Hope
Closed by law and special decree
So that the Pacific waves would quit
Bastardizing that other sea.
 
Next it was the turn of Panama and Suez
And then of the Bosporus and Gibraltar:
Every last wave demanded
Respect for its sovereign independence
 
No more exchanges of water and fish
No more round-the-world trips in sailing ships
All canals were closed
To the passage of foreign waves
 
Thus for a time the waters of all
The planet's seas became calm again
But before long it began again: a wave said
That it was time to end it all
 
And so it happened that one day in our local sea
The Ionian demanded to be alone
And so did the Tyrrhenian and the Sicilian Strait
And the Adriatic forthwith
 
In short, 'let no one mix with anyone else'
Thundered the waters of the shallows
'Let each remain anchored in place
And bathe only the sands of her birth.'
 
It seemed to be over but it was only the beginning
And it was truly ugly to see
In what once was a vast expanse
The gashes of trenches rending the sea
 
It was only the beginning, as we said
Because now the secessionist fever
Was sickening every single shore
And nothing and no one managed to say 'enough'
 
And thus from Trieste to the tip of Apulia
From Sicily to the Italian Riviera
Every last tiny creek demanded
Independence and not in name only
 
But the matter went shabby
When they seized each other drop by drop
And, each eyeing her neighbor, said
'Go away or I'll break your face'
 
The sea was soon an assemblage of dewdrops
Of no use to fish or any creature
Tuna, anchovies, and swordfish died
Deep-sea vessels stayed on dry land
 
And then one day or (I'm not sure) one night
Something even stranger happened
Do you know the formula H2O?
Yes, the one for water that we all know
 
Well, hydrogen took exception
And claimed to have a majority
And thus the sovereign right
To pursue now-hallowed independence
 
A kind of wind blew, an infinite gust
And the water of the seas vaporized into the sky
There remained a desert of salt and granite
But dark and deep, blacker than black
 

Half on nothing

Keeping you all to myself
Seemed to be stealing something
Given the great abundance of life
The two of us cooped up in just one story
Just one
 
And so we said, let's go
And maybe we'll come back some day
You took half of nothing
I the other half, and then I closed
The door
 
But the life that burns your hands
Happened far from here
Mixed up and lost in the days
Of other people's time
Marì...
 
And so we said let's go
And maybe we'll come back some day
But that nothing divided in half
Demanded that the door stay closed
Forever
 
And the life that burns your hands
Happened far from here
Mixed up and lost in the days
In other people's days
Marì...
 

Carousel

I had a strange dream
A morning dream
A weird and truthful dream
That I woke up and was still a little boy
And was setting off, my bed a sailing-ship
 
On one side there was the sea
And on the other practically nothing
A storm was puffing the sails
I was flying over people's hats
I was shouting to the world
And the world was a carousel
 
Tell me if you believe me
And if you believe me, wait for me because
If I ever come back
I'll come back to you
Tell me if you believe me
And if you believe me wait for me
That way, if I come back
You'll already be here
A cannon's mouth
Was spitting cannonballs and fire
And there was a red cat at a window
Almost as if it were a game, he was watching
People falling off the carousel
 
They were falling into the streets
But without making much noise
Like leaves in the November wind
And the red cat's heart grew sad
But he stayed at the window, as always
 
Tell me if...