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Poem

Massimo Morasso

Friends? Few.

Friends? Few.
                       And even those few
thrown out into the idea
of growing up, into the waiting room of days
to become a group, to sit and chatter
and then smoke,
and to respond this way,
with the vinous embrace of non-being,
to the immovable boredom.
While I was nourishing myself with Immortals.
                                               A lunacy,
a crowded apprenticeship.
But this is how love is.
A lunacy. An excavation. A feverish
memory of the origin.
It makes its rounds in the body
                 and then descends into the future
on a road of gold and lapis lazuli,
paved with dreams…

Friends? Few.

Amici? Pochi.
                      E anche quei pochi
scagliati fuori nell’idea
di diventare grandi, nell’anticamera dei giorni
a fare gruppo, a fare chiacchiera
e poi fumo,
e rispondere così,
con l’abbraccio vinoso del non essere,
all’immobile noia.
Mentre io mi nutrivo di immortali.
                                        Una follia,
un popoloso apprendistato.
Ma è cosi che è l’amore.
Una follia. Uno scavo. Una memoria
dell’origine, febbrile.
Fa il giro del corpo
                    e scende nel futuro
lungo una strada d’oro e lapislazzuli,
lastricata di sogni…
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Friends? Few.

Friends? Few.
                       And even those few
thrown out into the idea
of growing up, into the waiting room of days
to become a group, to sit and chatter
and then smoke,
and to respond this way,
with the vinous embrace of non-being,
to the immovable boredom.
While I was nourishing myself with Immortals.
                                               A lunacy,
a crowded apprenticeship.
But this is how love is.
A lunacy. An excavation. A feverish
memory of the origin.
It makes its rounds in the body
                 and then descends into the future
on a road of gold and lapis lazuli,
paved with dreams…

Friends? Few.

Friends? Few.
                       And even those few
thrown out into the idea
of growing up, into the waiting room of days
to become a group, to sit and chatter
and then smoke,
and to respond this way,
with the vinous embrace of non-being,
to the immovable boredom.
While I was nourishing myself with Immortals.
                                               A lunacy,
a crowded apprenticeship.
But this is how love is.
A lunacy. An excavation. A feverish
memory of the origin.
It makes its rounds in the body
                 and then descends into the future
on a road of gold and lapis lazuli,
paved with dreams…
Sponsors
Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
Lira fonds
Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie
Elise Mathilde Fonds
Stichting Verzameling van Wijngaarden-Boot
Veerhuis
VDM
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