{"id":1457,"date":"2017-02-18T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natscammacca.natscammacca.org\/tp\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2017-02-18T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T19:28:39","slug":"letture-di-poesieonly-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natscammacca.natscammacca.org\/tp\/2017\/02\/18\/letture-di-poesieonly-with-a-smile\/pubblicazioni\/autori\/nat-scammacca\/","title":{"rendered":"Letture di Poesie:Only with a Smile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only with a Smile?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And man will be good\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yes, he will do good things<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As if the skies were always blue<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And as if \u201cprofit\u201d were not the only measure of things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yes, we shall build together \u2014 WE \u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And then I shall be you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And you will be me And we shall share our things together<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Half for you &amp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Half for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The poor will be rich &amp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The rich will be poor<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They will divest themselves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of everything they have<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thanking the poor for taking what they have,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With a smile<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Only with a smile?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the governors will come down amongst us to say:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe laws up there are only halters<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Around the necks of the workers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If we all come down<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The chain of laws will break<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Into a thousand little pieces<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the workers will be free\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the law of the owners will never exist again<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And they will turn their pockets inside out<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Not hiding anything<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And they will point at one another and say:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe have stolen the land and its produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now we shall give it all back<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Burning all the papers of ownership<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And every instrument of possession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Let the fields from now on<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Be open to everyone<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the walls crumble<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">All over the land and in our minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the cities, the builders of cement<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(Columns of power)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will bash in and bust up their cement mixers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will wash their dirty hands<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of the Red Blood of White Deaths<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Then in columns or alone<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They will fan out and return<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To the countryside<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To the beaches and to the hills with a smile<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Only with a smile?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And he who raises up systems and pyramids<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will return to the base<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To the provinces<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To the outskirts<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The demi-god will lose himself<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Amongst the people<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Joining the \u201cwe\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Becoming smaller, always smaller<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Eating less<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Always less<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With a smile<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Only with a smile?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And a herald will call up rows of trumpeters<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To make the good news reverberate<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout the land<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On trumpets of gold<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the news will echo everywhere in everyone\u2019s ears<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And men will believe<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The capitalist is a good man, too,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That the banker doesn\u2019t suck blood<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That the bourgeosie does not hate<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But loves the worker<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And all wrongs<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will be made right<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And all the systems of the world<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will wither away<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And the establishments will all dissolve into the blue<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And you and I, the \u201cwe,\u201d will believe<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That this all will happen with a smile<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Only with a smile?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only with a Smile? &nbsp; And man will be good\u2014 Yes, he will do good things As if the skies were always blue And as if \u201cprofit\u201d were not the only measure of things. 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