the first vertebra

the current situation
under this grey suburban sky
it is a karstic and dense talk
like a drought that draws the river dry
so that by the mouth of the sea,
the sea goes into the river
and in its bed it stays at ease

 a  karstic and dense talk
which hurts your back
and makes it hard to bend
beyond the minimum tolerable end

beyond that lays the not bearable,
the awareness, the scientific proof
about the fact that by now on the rainy season you cannot rely

to make of that flash of inspiration a good reason
it is necessary to invent new rains
 even artificial ones if needed

it is a karstic and dense talk
that no one understands
 even though the relevant reasoning should be linear
like that of the first vertebra
that holds the skull and Atlas is called
maybe that is why under this forgotten suburban sky
of the always having to leave disease
we all are sufferers
and that pain little by little we release

Marco Bo