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Poem

Paolo Ruffilli

JOURNEY

I know what I have felt
again and again
and never has it been
something abstract
but clearly drawn
on my skin, an
actual etching
that attacks and
cleanly removes
a painful carving
a scrap removed
and wholly gone
filings in
a specific spot
a minimal reduction . . .
Anyway, I cannot
change myself
yet I feel that
whenever I go
it is somehow
a bit like dying.

Nell’atto di partire

Nell’atto di partire

Sarà che l\'ho sentita
ogni volta uguale
e non è stata mai
una cosa astratta
ma proprio segnata
sulla pelle, fatta
azione materiale
che assale e
che cancella,
un\'incisione dolorosa
una particella tolta
e consumata tutta
una limatura
in puncti loco
un accorciamento minimale.
Dipenderà, sia pure,
dalla mia natura . . .
però lo sperimento
nell\'atto di partire
che tanto o poco
è già un morire.
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JOURNEY

I know what I have felt
again and again
and never has it been
something abstract
but clearly drawn
on my skin, an
actual etching
that attacks and
cleanly removes
a painful carving
a scrap removed
and wholly gone
filings in
a specific spot
a minimal reduction . . .
Anyway, I cannot
change myself
yet I feel that
whenever I go
it is somehow
a bit like dying.

JOURNEY

I know what I have felt
again and again
and never has it been
something abstract
but clearly drawn
on my skin, an
actual etching
that attacks and
cleanly removes
a painful carving
a scrap removed
and wholly gone
filings in
a specific spot
a minimal reduction . . .
Anyway, I cannot
change myself
yet I feel that
whenever I go
it is somehow
a bit like dying.
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