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MERI NIGRO
MERI-LOQUIZING
[I suffer from an interiority whole]
IN AN
ILLUSIONTEQUE
[collection of entertaining illusions]
Title | Meri-loquizing in an illusionteque
Author | Meri Nigro
Cover by Meri Nigro
First edition: 2016
Author’s Copyright © 2016 All rights reserved
TABLE OF CONTENTS
To Emma
Frasi Fatte
Le frasi fatte hanno tutte una caratteristica in comune: ildisfarsi con facilità.
Set phrases
All set phrases have one common thread: the easilyunsetting.
1.Repairs
It broke.
Fix it, then!
What should I fix? How? By what means?
You need two main tools: time and patience.
Then, the glue is called Patience and the order of pieces iscalled Time?
Let's say yes.
No, it can't be done this time.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Still with this stupid story?
If you want to fix something broken, take time and patienceand put the pieces back together, right?
No: If you are missing parts you can no longer doit.
I didn't think about it.
You don't think enough.
You think too much, however.
And there are also those who do not think at all! Youknow?
Oh, yes! - Those living certainly a thousand times better, Itell you.
They live, yes, but they never are.
Why? Or isn't living being, is it?
No, it isn't. You never know how many people live withoutbeing.
But if "they are there" how do they not "be"?
Being there is not always being. The difference is exactlyin that "there".
And will they die like that, without having everbeen?
Yes, probably they will die as well. But if it's true thatthey've never been, actually it's more like they would not die atall, now that I think about it.
I told you: You think too much.
[If you could know the extent of the destruction before theconstruction, everything would be fairer]
2.Carnevale
Briciole di arcobaleni di carta
come fiocchi precipitano lievi
a coprir come neve asfalti nudi
Sorrisi dipinti offrono scudi
ad anime che angustiano grevi
sotto tessuti caldi di sarta
Lascia che la musica cancelli
la monotonia di un passo normale
Che le voci siano coltelli
e squarcino ogni pensiero reale
Non pensarci finché pensarci non farà piùmale
2.Mardi Gras
Crumbs of rainbows paper
like flakes fall slightly
to cover bare asphalts like snow
Painted smiles offer shields
to souls who feel the pain
under warm fabrics of seamstress
Let the music clear
the monotony of a normal pace
Let voices be knives
and tear any real thought
Don’t think about it until thinking about it will hurtno more.
4.Pietra
Come una pietra
presa dal fango
rimpiango
lo sporco abbraccio
nella mano pulita
senza amore
Quanta consapevolezza
nei gesti di incoscienza
macina sottili scuse
impasta una ragione
L'ultimo fiore nel vento
non prova a far forza
guarda la speranza che muore
sotto un cielo spento
4.Stone
Like a stone
