How To Give Yourself A Home Enema

/ 2 Pier Paolo Pasolini

Hai fatto tutta quella strada per arrivare fin qui

ma adesso forse ti puoi riposare

un bagno caldo e qualcosa di fresco

da bere e da mangiare

ti apro io la valigia mentre tu resti li

e piano piano ti faccio vedere

c'erano solo quattro farfalle

a bit 'harder to die ...

Now you can rest.

You climbed the stairs, turned corners, sometimes walking in the dark, the uncertain. Now it's time to take a breath, unpacking.

're still a child playing with a red knapsack on his back and a suitcase too heavy to lift.

There was no time to say goodbye as I wanted. Hugs stolen, strangled, broken doors of the trains that pulled you from me.

Your eyes doe scared me a little more talking certain of your mouth.

back with new smells, smells of new houses, foreign to me.

back like a meteor, always open your suitcase by the bed, never completely defeated, ready for a new start, a new journey.

But now, perhaps, you can rest.

I saw you make order in your closet, store books, hang pictures, put lampshades, store documents.

I saw you unpack your suitcase.

I waited for you and you're back, Anna.