Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

Bodoni Twelve Points

Always the same way:
the “è” wearing a slipper
and “f” with a tail.
One fat, one lean, one short,
“m” with three paws,
“p” leaning on a crutch
because of gout.
Alone, in the empty drawer with a pout
is “y” ─ and the only hope
a printer’s error.
(Translated by Luigi Bonaffini)