The spirit level
di Antonio de Curtis
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Every year on the 2nd of November,
it is usual for the dead care, to go to the Cemetery.
Everyone should do this present;
Everyone should have this thought.
Every year, exactly on this day,
Of this sad and unhappy happening,
I go there too, and with some flowers I garnish
the grave stone of Auntie "Vincenza".
This year an adventure has happened to me ...
After completed the sad homage,
My God! I am still scared (if I think at it)
But then I got braveness.
The fact is the following, listen to me:
We were next to the closing time
When slowly slowly I was going out
Having a look at some graves.
"Here sleeps in peace the nobleman marquis,
lord of Rovigo and Belluno,
brave hero of 1000 enterprises,
dead on 11th of May 1931"
A Logo with a crown at the very top ...
Below a cross made of bulbs;
Three bunch of roses with a mourning list ...
Candles, Big candles and six little candles.
Very Next to the grave of this lord
There was another very little grave,
It was abandoned without any flower;
As a sign only a little cross,
And on the cross it was very difficult to read:
"Esposito Gennaro - Dustman"
I felt pain, looking at him ...
This dead man without any candle.
"That's life" - I thought in my mind. "Who has had a lot and who hasn't had anything!"
"Was this poor man aware
that he was beggar at the other world too?"
While I was daydreaming to this situation,
It was nearby midnight,
And I was left closed and prisoner,
Dead and scared in front of the candles.
Suddenly what did I see in the distance?
Two shadows coming ...
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