It looks out like another city:
more cory, more fine,
more on a human scale.
goethe had realized that,
when, during his Roman stay,
had noticed how different were
its inhabitants, in comparison
with the other Romans: taurine necks,
more ferocious faces, the jack-knives' blades
more ready to shine, greedier for blood...
today, you can find that feerocity
on the buildings' walls, when you get
through the ancient alleys, smeared
with senseless graffiti: the poet
filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
head of the Futurist movement,
had hit the mark, when he defined
the war, as "The only hygiene of the world"...
the young boys feel the need
of having an enemy, and for this reason
in times of peace, they take it on
with the walls,because they are
innocent and undefended:
they feel more alive when they smear the world.
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