plaque to shame
Calamandrei Piero, at the town of Cuneo, 1952
The same text appears as 12 August 1993 on a plaque in the square of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, dell'eccidio place on 12 August 1944.
The dorm will have
Kesselring
the monument that we think to Italian
but that stone will be built
up to us to decide.
not with stones smoked
of defenseless villages battered by your extermination
not with the earth of the cemeteries where our fellow youths
not rest in peace with the untouched snow in the mountains for two winters
not challenge you with the spring in these valleys
that saw you escape.
But only the silence of the tortured
Harder
only of every rock with the rock of this covenant between free men
sworn volunteers who flocked to
dignity and not to hate
determined to redeem
the shame and terror of the world.
On these streets if you want to return us to our seats
end up dead and living people
same commitment neck tightened around the monument
called
now and forever
RESISTANCE
