Strage di Brescia, ovvero Canto dei Morti Invano
I have not had time to write these last few days.
so I could not comment on yet another Italian shame: the acquittal in the trial for the massacre of Brescia (May 28, 1974) of the accused, despite the overwhelming evidence, from a historical as well as on the judiciary.
The best comment is this poem by Primo Levi
Song of died in vain
Sit down and bargain
There will, old silver foxes. There
mureremo in a splendid palace
With food, wine, vouchers beds and good provided they are taken and traded fire
The lives of our children and yours. What
all the wisdom of creation
Converge to bless your minds And guide you through the maze
.
But we will wait us out in the cold,
The army of the dead in vain,
We of the Marne and Monte Cassino,
Treblinka, Dresden and Hiroshima:
It will be with us
Lepers and tracomatosi,
The missing of in Buenos Aires,
The dead of Cambodia and about to die of Ethiopia, I bargained
of Prague, The bloodless
of Calcutta,
innocent tortured in Bologna.
Woe to you if you come out discordant:
You will be close in our embrace.
We are invincible because we are the losers.
invulnerable because they are already extinct:
We laugh your missiles. Sit down and bargain
long as the language there is dried: If last
the damage and shame
We drowned in our decay.
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