Alzati Teresa che e' tempo per ballare
Sopra a questa sorte che gioia non dà
Cuore pompa sangue che voglio vivere
E sputa via la morte...
La Canzone può prendere molte forme... melodia, poesia, ritmo, danza. Ma è sempre la stessa, che fluisce dentro e fuori di noi, se la facciamo passare. E' l'arte e l'emozione, e ciò per cui val la pena di esistere.
Today’s raining here. It seems to rain everyday, in this city. I wonder where the blue sky has gone… swallowed by grey clouds I guess. The hot drops fall all over me wetting my clothes and my hair, then dying on the dirty grey cement of the broken roads. I find cover under a building, in front of real estate agencies filled with Chinese signs offering flats in this hopeless periphery of the great whore of the East,
The people around me are all the same, I can’t tell one from another. Dressed in shabby clothes, with swarthy yellow skin and with the same detachment for the laowai, the foreigner. I think I would like to lay me down and die here, just if the ground wasn’t so disgusting I even loath to die in such a place.
Apathy is creeping like a disease inside me, killing like a poison every hope, every desire, every care for virtue or growth. All is grey, and I’m turning grey, too.
In chaotic darkness, veins beating to the rhythm of music and bodies rocked by the flow of alcohol, unfamiliar faces pass by until one of them hits the memory, as the one looked for. Bare feet tread on the unseen floor, hands join in an embrace of fingers. Skin touches skin, and the warmth of each other’s breath can be felt with more than one sense.
Sitting on a bench, giving up all burdening thoughts that swirl with no order in the mind, we surrender to our deepest instincts and, as the first note of a symphony after a crescendo, our lips finally meet. Our tongues engage in a wild dance where everything else disappears, and they stand alone, joined together in a world of their own.
I lose myself in the weightless chemistry of your kiss, as overwhelmed by the tide of an ocean unknown. In that strange sea I drown, looking for the treasure of my own and others’ self.
Musica soffusa, fuori il primo giorno d’autunno, aria fresca e umida di foschia. Odore di caffè, sapore di tiramisù, cacao e mascarpone, dolcezza di succo d’arancia e neutralità d’acqua. La completezza della sigaretta.
Seduto a un tavolino sul fondo, unico cliente, mi collego con il mondo tramite la rete. Comunico con persone, ed evito la folla.
Mai trovato un luogo così dolce e pacifico. Non mi meraviglia sia a Pechino.