di Ninny Antonino Aiuto

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The lingering agony of thinking

produces decadent and yet charming

remains

in a far better possible future

present.

from a toilet wall

at “London Waterloo East” Railway Station

I needn’t put a name

to your country or mine,

I needn’t mark limits

but draw roads, lakes, rivers

and signposts. I don’t need

a language but my voice,

I don’t wish a nation

but just a right rule, I

can’t love a silent flag

but my old song and then

I would change some columns

for beautiful statues

and even these, I know,

we might be spared of them.

Once Klaus recommended

just a title to me,

“Love-Lies-Bleeding” it was.

Most entries already

have been surrendering

to these terrible terms,

yet a synonyms squad

there has lined up, ready

to shoot just some of them.

Yeah! The matter is not

what they could have said

but what still lies behind.