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36 SQUARE METRES

( Davide Riccio ITA - Translated by the Author )

 

 

I am 36 years old and I have a mini-flat:

an entry, a breakfast-room and a kitchenette

then a room with a divan-bed,

a blind bathroom and two balconies,

36 square metres to trample on

intolerable by now, that’s all;

one square metre

for each year of my life.

 

It’s not even said

that by the same mysterious law

100 square metres I am going to have

at the age of 100.

When I am 100

it will be suffice

two metres of length

and 90 centimetres in width.