"Over there, where they died the damned
hell decadent and crazy
infinite in the asylum,
where the limbs
you avvoltolavano in linen
as in a shroud Semitic
[…]
over there, in the asylum
it was easy to move
touch the paradise
[…]
there you saw God …
My poor verses
are not beautiful, vaunted words,
are not aphrodisiacs crazy
ammannire by the powerful
and to those wishing to cajole his thirst.
My poor verses
are pieces of flesh
Black defeat closed
and strike you impetuous …
and the mission of the poet."
Alda Merini