Parlatemi voi che partecipate alla giornata dei pareri. |
Speak to me, you who take part in the Opinion's Day. |
Immagina con me il giorno in cui il tecnico delle luci dell'universo chiederà ad ognuno di esporre la propria opinione su un foglio di carta.
Le piazze ricoperte di lamentele, le chiese ornate di preghiere e i pali tassellati di sogni sovrapposti. Sui muri, come un secondo strato di cemento, saranno poste le affermazioni, recitate dal vento come preghiere. Chi non conosce il vento si ritroverà pieno di nuove idee, chi lo conosce, invece, lo troverà cambiato. I fogli, sdoppiati da ogni lettura, specchiandosi negli occhi di ogni lettore, regaleranno al vento mille riflessi di pochi messaggi.
Così in Via delle Pescherie si parlerà solo di pesce, in Via degli Orafi si parlerà soltanto d'oro e in piazza Maggiore si discuterà del più e del più.
"La vita va vissuta senza pensare", mi dirai in Via dei Morti, l'ennesima delle preghiere infiltratasi nei tuoi occhi darà aria alle tue labbra.
Così come il gallo annuncia al giorno l'arrivo del sole, tu da allora annuncerai l'arrivo del pagliaccio. - Via delle Lame 108/F, muro interno - |
Picture with me the day the universe’s lighting guy will ask everyone to put their opinion on a sheet of paper. Squares and piazzas will be covered in complaints,
churches will be dripping with prayers, and lampposts will be patched with stacked dreams. On the walls, like a second coat of concrete, statements will be nailed up, the wind will read them like prayers.
Folks who don’t know the wind will end up full of new ideas; those who know it will find it changed. The sheets, doubled by every reading and reflected in each reader’s eyes, will give the wind a thousand
glints of a few messages. So in Fish Avenue they will talk only about fish, at the Golden Tower only about gold, and in the Great Square they will argue about the more and the more. “Life has to be lived without thinking,”
you will tell me in a dead end, another one of those prayers that have slid into your eyes gave air to your lips. Just like the rooster will announce the sun to the day, from then on you will be the one to announce the clown.
I will hate my own surprise; I will want to explain to you the sound of time; I will want to show you how small you are — but all I will be doing is lending you my words so you can think with them. You will not deserve them, and they will not help you.
That’s why, sadly, you will have to die. Every word I will give you will push you away from yourself. What choice will I have left? You will have to doubt that second coat of concrete, and when the walls will not fall you will see that it will be you keeping them up, not the
concrete, not the statements. I know you will be scared. In front of original sin, round two, you will be asked whether you will want to believe the concrete or be concrete, and you will sin. And if your holy not-thinking will manage to stain of profane what is be sacred to me, I will have no choice but to kill you.
Those pages sung by the wind will sow prayers and will gather their sacred, dragging all the madmen into their holy war. And I will be mad. I will drop this fucking wall on your head, just to watch you get crushed by something you will never have seen. Dreams and declarations will melt away in front of you, and all that concrete you will not be will crush you.
And if once again you will tell me that concrete just “is,” I will tell you: “Die, clown, die.” |