Dino Compana

Dino Campana


Oh poem poem poem

Oh poem poem poem

Rise, rise, rise

Up from the electric fever of the nightly pavement.

Unstoppable from the equivocal elastic silhouettes

Darts in the burst and in the sudden scream

Over the monotonous and anonymous shooting

Of voices which tireless like flutes

The perverted whore screams at the intersection

Because the big elegant man stole her little dog

A wanton grasshopper jumps

From one sidewalk to another all green

And galls the core of my bread the metal rasps of the streetcar

Silence–a lightening gesture

Has generated a rain of stars

From one side that bows and collapses under the prestigious hit

In an eye-catching cape of velvety blood

Silence again. Comments dry

And deaf a revolver that announces

And closes another destiny.


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