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

(Marcin) #1
(Cont.d)

Town of grass and wind, but not of trees:
but all of you go ahead, go screw yourselves!
If there is anywhere a sign that says:
“The people of this town are enemies!”
Whose enemies are they? O factory of idiots
They’re only the enemies of their fate!
Enemies of themselves just out of spite,
and Reggio has the world’s greatest dimwits!
(Translated by Luigi Bonaffini)

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