FOR THE SEISMOLOGIST

It started with an earthquake

and never stopped:

an authentic movement

without weapons

without politics: my love for this lady

It is no secret of state

I want her as the roots of the trees

want earth:

steadier and firmer

than any of those buildings

that have known how to preserve

invulnerable before us

a rare case for any seismologist

Even if it is well known the epicenter of

this something that is killing us.

In the end the scales of richter

and mercalli

are pure shit in front

of us…

thus I remain

this section

of the body

of the elida

after the last tremor …

of lips.

November 5th 1972