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\title{Twilight Dance}
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\author{Renzo Novatore}
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\begin{quote}
This is the hour of my nocturnal thoughts.\forcelinebreak
My Demon sleeps.\forcelinebreak
Sleeps in the dark twilight.\forcelinebreak
of this soul of mine\forcelinebreak
The red Demon\forcelinebreak
of my infernal joy.\forcelinebreak
I Smoke\dots{}\forcelinebreak
I Smoke desperately,\forcelinebreak
intensely. Always!\forcelinebreak
Always! Always! Always!\forcelinebreak
I wished to think, to write, to sing\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But my Demon sleeps.\forcelinebreak
Sleeps in the dark twilight\forcelinebreak
of this soul of mine\forcelinebreak
The red Demon\forcelinebreak
of my infernal joy.\forcelinebreak
And the thoughts do not come\dots{}\forcelinebreak
Not even the laughter and the malediction!\forcelinebreak
And this is my black hour\forcelinebreak
Of black melancholy\forcelinebreak
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I watch, distractedly, my cigarette.\forcelinebreak
Slender, pallid and warm\forcelinebreak
Like a sick lover.\forcelinebreak
I watch it being consumed very slowly\forcelinebreak
like my life and my dreams:\forcelinebreak
like the life and the dreams of all my brothers.\forcelinebreak
The ash fell to earth and dispersed. So!\forcelinebreak
The smoke, it raises, dense and gray, in the air\forcelinebreak
and is dispersed also. So.\forcelinebreak
For me naught remains\forcelinebreak
but a bit of yellow nicotine on the loving lips. So.\forcelinebreak
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My Demon sleeps.\forcelinebreak
Sleeps in the dark twilight\forcelinebreak
of this soul of mine\forcelinebreak
The red Demon\forcelinebreak
of my infernal joy.\forcelinebreak
I watch the Sun!\forcelinebreak
I see it descend between the blond whirlpool\forcelinebreak
of a beautiful sea of gold.\forcelinebreak
Of gold and of blood\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But my heart is bitten.\forcelinebreak
Bitten by a frigid plant\forcelinebreak
without hopes and tears,\forcelinebreak
without hatred and without love.\forcelinebreak
Oh, you could at least cry\dots{}\forcelinebreak
you could at least curse\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But, no!\forcelinebreak
No! no! no!\forcelinebreak
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Who?\forcelinebreak
Who ever therefore has made me so bad?\forcelinebreak
Who is the evil craftsman\forcelinebreak
of this my suffering?\forcelinebreak
Oh mother\dots{} my mother\dots{}\forcelinebreak
If still you had the force\forcelinebreak
of being able at least to curse\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But, no!\forcelinebreak
No! No! No!\forcelinebreak
Nevertheless it was you only\forcelinebreak
you! Who\forcelinebreak
have given me life,\forcelinebreak
Who have given me pain,\forcelinebreak
Who have given me Evil!\forcelinebreak
But tell me:\forcelinebreak
You believed perhaps in the joy of living?\forcelinebreak
I am therefore the son of such a grotesque dream?\forcelinebreak
Or am I just a most vulgar son\forcelinebreak
of the collective unconsciousness?\forcelinebreak
But why then, oh mother,\forcelinebreak
didn’t you have\forcelinebreak
- that day -\forcelinebreak
the heroic inspiration to strike\forcelinebreak
VIOLENTLY\forcelinebreak
your swollen stomach\forcelinebreak
over a hard stone. So!\forcelinebreak
Because I wouldn’t have willed to see\forcelinebreak
The Sun.\forcelinebreak
Because I wouldn’t have willed\forcelinebreak
This miserable life.\forcelinebreak
Because I suffer such, So\dots{}\forcelinebreak
O mother, you cry?\forcelinebreak
And why?\forcelinebreak
You feel perhaps the remorse\forcelinebreak
of having created me?\forcelinebreak
Imagine perhaps the evil\forcelinebreak
that torments me and breaks me\forcelinebreak
so terribly?\forcelinebreak
Oh, you had at least the force\forcelinebreak
Of being able to to curse\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But, no!\forcelinebreak
No! No! No!\forcelinebreak
They are too vile!\forcelinebreak
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The river flows and sings\dots{}\forcelinebreak
(the beautiful river tranquil and laughing)\forcelinebreak
Flows over its fine bed\forcelinebreak
Of wet dust\forcelinebreak
and its white foams\forcelinebreak
are a golden quilt.\forcelinebreak
The titanic reef\forcelinebreak
washes its granitic flanks\forcelinebreak
within your terse waters\forcelinebreak
- o solitary river -\forcelinebreak
and seated at your banks\forcelinebreak
I\forcelinebreak
watch the green leaves\forcelinebreak
which, embroidered of shadow and of light,\forcelinebreak
the wind caresses. So!\forcelinebreak
I watch. Think and remember\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But my soul is dark\forcelinebreak
and, all around me,\forcelinebreak
the evening cries. Black.\forcelinebreak
I love no more.\forcelinebreak
I no longer believe!\forcelinebreak
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Who?\forcelinebreak
Who ever therefore has made me so bad?\forcelinebreak
The women and Love?\forcelinebreak
The men and friendship?\forcelinebreak
The society and its law?\forcelinebreak
The humanity and its faith?\forcelinebreak
Perhaps them all!\forcelinebreak
Perhaps none of them!\forcelinebreak
I don’t know\dots{}\forcelinebreak
I feel so bad\dots{}\forcelinebreak
So Much! So Much! So Much!\forcelinebreak
Here\dots{} in the soul!\forcelinebreak
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My Demon sleeps.\forcelinebreak
sleeps in the dark twilight\forcelinebreak
of this soul of mine\forcelinebreak
How much is sad\dots{} Sad and melancholy.\forcelinebreak
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I wish for new friends.\forcelinebreak
For true new friends.\forcelinebreak
I need to confide\forcelinebreak
(to someone)\forcelinebreak
my black melancholies.\forcelinebreak
But I do not have friends\forcelinebreak
I am alone!\forcelinebreak
Alone with my\forcelinebreak
MELANCHOLIES\forcelinebreak
Alone with my Destiny.\forcelinebreak
Alone, So alone!\forcelinebreak
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My Demon sleeps.\forcelinebreak
My brain is shot through\forcelinebreak
by a Memory.\forcelinebreak
Memory of a dream.\forcelinebreak
Dream of youth:\forcelinebreak
“Men strong and happy,\forcelinebreak
embrace you, you entwine\forcelinebreak
with nude bodies of women\forcelinebreak
beautiful, joyous and happy,\forcelinebreak
you are celebrated and glorified\forcelinebreak
by children innocent and happy.\forcelinebreak
Then:\forcelinebreak
Flowers and sun.\forcelinebreak
Music and dances.\forcelinebreak
Stars and poetry.\forcelinebreak
Songs and love”.\forcelinebreak
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My Demon sleeps.\forcelinebreak
My brain is shot through\forcelinebreak
By the rays yellowish\forcelinebreak
black and greenish\forcelinebreak
of the filthy reality!\forcelinebreak
Of the reality that passes\dots{}\forcelinebreak
“a blend of brutes and of brutal.\forcelinebreak
A compound of hypocrisy and ignorance.\forcelinebreak
A mixture of cowardice and lies.\forcelinebreak
A totality of dung and mud”.\forcelinebreak
Ah, no!\forcelinebreak
No! No! No!\forcelinebreak
I suffer such!\forcelinebreak
So Much! So Much! So Much!\forcelinebreak
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The sun is setting.\forcelinebreak
(the beautiful sun of gold)\forcelinebreak
the Angels of the evening\forcelinebreak
are agonizing\dots{}\forcelinebreak
The green leaves are skulls of the dead,\forcelinebreak
cold, laughing scornfully\dots{}\forcelinebreak
The river\forcelinebreak
(the beautiful terse river)\forcelinebreak
is now a black serpent\forcelinebreak
frightfully distended between the masses of the reef.\forcelinebreak
Tomb gloomy and mute.\forcelinebreak
Tomb gloomy and black.\forcelinebreak
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My cigarette is extinguished\dots{}\forcelinebreak
(my cigarette pallid and warm\forcelinebreak
like a sick lover)\forcelinebreak
The ash is dispersed.\forcelinebreak
The smoke as well.\forcelinebreak
To me naught remains but a bit\forcelinebreak
of yellow nicotine\forcelinebreak
on the loving lips:\forcelinebreak
Like of the life and of the dreams. So!\forcelinebreak
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Within the dark twilight\forcelinebreak
Of my soul\forcelinebreak
My red Demon arouses itself.\forcelinebreak
I feel like a rivulet of bitter blood\forcelinebreak
flowing over loving lips\dots{}\forcelinebreak
I have a tragic premonition\dots{}\forcelinebreak
What will happen in the night?\forcelinebreak
But\dots{} the stars\forcelinebreak
the\forcelinebreak
dear stars they\forcelinebreak
will see\forcelinebreak
Oh, if you could again once more\forcelinebreak
only laugh and curse\dots{}\forcelinebreak
But I see a sinister flash (a pyre?)\forcelinebreak
Shining in the darkness of the night.\forcelinebreak
I must STRIKE!\forcelinebreak
I feel\dots{}\forcelinebreak
I feel! I feel! I feel!\forcelinebreak
I am a star who turns\forcelinebreak
towards a tragic sunset.\forcelinebreak
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Twilight Dance
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Symphonic prelude to “DYNAMITE”, By Renzo Novatore (Abele Ferrari), date of composition unknown). Translated by Luther Blissett 2009. Renzo Novatore writes about the sadness and alienation of everyday life in this poem touching on themes of love turned sour and the cruelty of being born into a hostile and oppressive world.
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