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Replicas
( Franz Krauspenhaar ITA - REPLICHE - tras. Giovanni Agnoloni )

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow we might be all turned off,

no longer working, not very happy

and unable to feel any pity.

That’s the end of potato croquettes and meat balls

the raw bits of us worldly people’s Sundays.

Tomorrow we might even smooth the table edges

to hit our head against them: it’d be less hard.

Tomorrow we might curse our past

(although with diplomacy)

closing it in a toolbox

and sending it to Poste Restante “Mysteries of Faith”.

Tomorrow it might be the last idiocy

it’s better to book at the reservation desk.

Tomorrow, another day, we’ll try not to say again “we’ll see”,

but “we’ve already seen”.

Tomorrow it’s another replica

another unsurmountable distance

another shot in the darkness

another stupid collage of hours and minutes

another changing of the guard.