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sabato 10 maggio 2025

Songs for Elem



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Ain’t that love?

 

My love was desperation

Because around me

It was all emptiness,

And I just needed 

A  heart beating for me

To fill my longing to love!

 

But  is it love?

 

If our  fate

has brought us here together

Oh Elem

And I have seen on you

The end of  loneliness

When  counting down

the minutes between us

And if  I pained   leaving

rejoiced coinciding

staring at any people

  

Searching of you

And if I  winced up 

At any resembling  shadow

And you were become a master

of my any single dream

 devoured by anxiety  

and I didn’t feel  hunger nor thirst

 

And every single thought, 

Every single word,

Every single thing

Every single person

were you

 

Isn’t that love?


martedì 7 febbraio 2023

Now I know what’s love

 

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Now I know what is love

Not the sudden passion

that turns off soon

and then rises again 

Not even your eyes

some sincere

But not eternal

Not your vain, fallacious promises

But the Word that never betrays

It's true love!

domenica 5 febbraio 2023

Alone thinking of Elem

 

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Alone thinking of Elem

 

 

Don’t pass by on my street

‘cause I could think

She’s coming to me

 

Don’t knock at my door

‘cause I might think

She comes for asking love

 

Don’t call for me anytime

don’t look for me anywhere

don’t ask for me to anyone

 

Just leave me alone

thinking of her.

mercoledì 13 luglio 2022

Recuerdos de un Italiano en Londres -17

 

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Bob y los otros comerciantes, incluidos sus dos hermanos y una hermana, habían abandonado la escuela poco después de haber resuelto sus obligaciones escolasticas; de hecho, muchos incluso antes de ese término.

Rebelde y refractarios con las duras reglas de los profesores de la escuela inglésa, preferían la vida libre de la calle; sin supervisores jerárquicos invadiendo o reprendiendo y sin ningún tipo de obligación (no era raro que cambiaran las malas palabras con algún cliente demasiado exigente o desafortunado). Y con un gran sueldo sobre las ganancias promedio de los trabajadores y empleados de las oficinas encerradas.

Otros vendedores ambulantes eran los vendedores de periódicos. También ellos procedìan casi exclusivamente del este de Londres, pero era muy raro encontrar jóvenes entre ellos. Trabajaban al aire libre durante todo el año, ocupando las esquinas a la salida de las estaciones metropolitanas más importantes, usando una simple caja metálica dentro de la cual estaban los periódicos, y una mesa con silla de metal, y de allí emitieban algunos sonidos incomprensibles que se fusionaban con las corrientes que salìan de las entrañas de la tierra, a través de los infinitos meandros del metro; y en esos sonidos ya no se podían reconocer los nombres de los diarios Evening Standard y Evening News, que pronunciaban en una forma corta y deformada por el hábito, similar al traqueteo de una bestia herida, para atraer la atención de los pasajeros distraídos y apurados en tránsito hacia las entradas de los túneles subterráneos. 

sabato 2 luglio 2022

The real story of Patrick Winningoes-5

 

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While I was trying to go further in what the man had told of his personal story he took back with sad voice to tell his tale.

 

«I apologize for talking in a such confused mess. Before continuing telling you of my son it would be better to resume what happened first. At the age of twenty one, after a long journey and appropriate studies, I started some peculiar experiments on the human brain. I felt that I had to create a super brain in order to be reproduced and form a race of super-men able to drive on the right direction this dreg of humanity that inhabits the world. After all I had to consider that the brain of every living being contains, even though modified by the evolution, the original matrix of our existence.


After some rough attempts of surgical engineering, that occupied me for different years, whose initial success and following disappointed bitterness, almost led me to abandon the whole project, it was the fate to intervene and to point out the right way to me.

Which kind of proof would I more need to wait for? The same celestial stars directly showed me the way!


A beautiful day, in fact, while I was observing under the microscope a cat’s brain, ulterior, fortunate guinea-pig, subtracted to the deprivations of its life for the glory of the Science, an amazing account happened to me.

I had set the small feline’s organ in a cylindrical open neck test-tube and I was continuously thinking about it, looking as usual for a sprout of understanding on its complex and mysterious composition. At a certain point, needing something to eat, I went upstairs. I left unwillingly open the microscope’s focus. I was going to have a cup of tea, with my daily survival meal.

 

As I returned downstairs I immediately noticed that something strange had happened during my brief absence.  In the test-tube the brain of the cat had dried, acquiring a grey and pale color.

I extracted it with the pliers: it seemed a dry sponge without neither weight nor smell. What devil had it happened?  It was a gust of wind which answered to me.


In that underground where I secretly developed my experiments, I had not left but a small window, that I wanted surfaced to the level of the ground.  It had slightly disclosed, quiet enough to allow the passage of a provident ray of sun which, intruding the optic circuit of the microscope, had poured in with all its mighty energy, dehydrating completely the object of my experiments.

 

But my light, initial disappointment had soon to be transformed in high exultation, when I closer observed the test-tube that had served like furnace to that unforeseen experiment. On its fund rested some drops of a dense and glimmering liquid! I had a lightning, an intuition that afterwards had to be exactly revealed.


Admirably exact, my friends! I had found the way to extract from the muscle that includes our life, from the brain that contains all the knowledge of a human being, its own essence. An extract, a summary, that is the same, but free from the physical brain’s encumbrance, from the grey mash that comprises it. Free from the flesh as a soul is free from his body as an idea from his thinker as a thought from his action!

 

As you certainly know all our mental energy springs by a simple chemical reaction that is continuously produced in our brain. Such reaction, that the physicians define with the name of “synapse”, is originated by the reaction between the liquid whose any  brain is imbued and the cells it copiously contains. In practice this liquid, that has equal molecular structure in every man, works as a tracing detector of the cerebral process, whose action is, instead, what countersigns a man from another.

 

The intimate reasons for such different action of the cerebral processing, have seen divided for a long time the humanity. Manhood has however been until now incapable to intend the true reason for the difference of the beings of its species.  A human being, from the scientific point of view, it is only a product of a casual connection of the basically chemical mixtures that are contained in the cells. And all its activity is coordinated by the cerebral cells.

To succeed on obtaining a distillate of those cells, meant therefore to dispose of a substance of inestimable value.

 

At the beginning I thought to try his reproduction, but actually this would have been only an interesting and suggestive detour from my principal aim.

In order to reach it I had to gather all my efforts, and the results of that first experiments constituted the base of my following job.

First of all it was clear that the cerebral muscle, under particular conditions of temperature and environment, like those which took accidentally place that prophetic day in my laboratory, released a particular, liquid and dense substance, containing the fundamental geniuses, that I call primaries; those which are responsible of the most intimate and proper characters of the race.

 

It was also evident that such substance appeared able to be moved into another brain, creating there a new habitat in which to regenerate its cells and with them repurchase its functions and its aboriginal characters.


I verified more times the exactness of these hypotheses, but only in a direction, that I define evolutionary. The experiment only succeeded if the essence of a superior animal, in the steps of the evolutionary chain, was introduced in the brain of an inferior animal, while in the other way down, the phenomenon took place in a lesser and very attenuated tone deprived of significant consequence.

 

I baptized the liquid essence ‘nouchefalon ', and I prepared hence myself to develop in the foreseen direction my experiments.  What would it happen if I transfused some ‘human nouchefalon ' in to the brain of another man?”

 

 

 

 

domenica 19 gennaio 2020

Londres para siempre


Mi primera vez en Londres fue en el  1977. 

Hace mucho tiempo. Aún recuerdo el día en que aterricé en el aeropuerto de Heathrow.

 Fue quando  murió Elvis Presley. Recuerdo desde mi autobús, en el interminable camino de una sola dirección que me conduciría a la estación Victoria (según el  boleto de mi autobús), la marcha de los seguidores en honor del cantante  de Memphis. 

Tenían en sus manos signos de su ídolo: "Elvis nunca morirá" o "Elvis para siempre", "Todavía vives en nuestros corazones" y cosas por el estilo.

Yo era un joven lleno de esperanza y pena, en ese momento. Iba a Londres a olvidar un amor no correspondido; o tal vez solo estaba buscando algo que aún no había encontrado.

En ese momento, había abandonado los estudios de mi universidad, sin dinero, sin trabajo, sin amor. Solo como una piedra sola puede ser.

No había sido realmente muy aficionado a Elvis; seguramente mucho más a  Jimmy Hendrix; Elvis era un mito demasiado controvertido a mis ojos; un gran cantante, por supuesto, no diría que no; pero a veces me sentía como si hubiera sido explotado por la industria exitosa estadounidense; ese tipo de negocio capaz de crear (y también destruir, si ellos quisieran) cualquier tipo de mito, cualquier tipo de estrella; '¿ya sabes? Esa clase de víctima del star system americano  como Marilyn Monroe o James Dean. Yo era bastante crítico del capitalismo en ese momento.

Pero, de hecho, ya tenía demasiados problemas por mi cuenta para criticar cualquiera cosa.

Yo solo tenía una dirección en mi bolsillo, de un amigo que había ido previamente a Londres y con quien estaba en contacto. A través de este amigo, me presentaron en un supermercado italiano, en King's Cross Road. Recientemente he estado allí. Donde estaba la tienda, ahora solo queda una insignia, cubierta de polvo.

Encontré buena ayuda allí. Un amigo del dueño, un buen tipo Marchegiani que vendía jamones italianos, queso y otra comida italiana especial, me encontró un trabajo en una fábrica de pizzas, en algún lugar de Farringdon Rd. Y George mismo, me refiero todavìa al tìo Marchegiani, me encontró un lugar para dormir: una habitación en Keystone Crescent, a la vuelta de la esquina de su tienda, donde me cobraron 5 libras por semana, mientras que en la fábrica mi primer salario eran buenas 40 libras semanales.

No estába nada  mal para un principiante.

1. continùa...

domenica 26 agosto 2018

London for ever - 23



I then asked him for news of their repertoire. It consisted of many pieces of its own composition, whose lyrics were inspired by the original and authentic roots of the  rock movement, dealing  with his proletarian origins, class struggle, rebellion against adult society and his most conservative institutions, also singing on sexual freedom. Other songs were better suited to the arpeggios and blues sounds and talked of disappointments, youthful nostalgia, and ideal worlds.
 He told me had composed all those songs  several years earlier when he was still attending the Art School in London (where he had met David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Keith Richard, Pete Townshend and other illustrious names who had established themselves in the world Golden rock music).

But he refused to sell his art and his songs to the star system, convinced that the rock-based unit could only be kept by playing live and sharing in the concert the same emotions; while recording discs meant the opposite, breaking the unity of movement by relegating the divas to a golden loneliness, releasing them emotionally and definitively from their own supporters.

He had chosen to earn his living, at the beginning playing the guitar in squares, streets or subway stations; he had later created his group, gaining with it important spaces in the pubs and clubs of London that allowed him to continue to live the unmistakable emotions that only the concerts can give the artist when the music is flowing well and the audience is relaxed and happy and all, artists and spectators, in those magical moments, forget themselves and their problems.

And you do not care to be none  any more, but you just try to flow forever in that feeling of sweet despair.

Then we  talked of our  lives, as if we had been friends forever. That confidential tone seemed to make him slide to a verge of melancholy.

«In the end, he said, every man has his own life, his fate carved in the brain or perhaps written for him somewhere in the Cosmos! If you believe it, of course! » He added, trying to slit and return to the conversation in that compassed, almost suspended tone we had maintained so far!

- «You mean, God, don’t you?» I interjected, seriously.

- « I do not know. Maybe …»he replied without giving too much emphasis to the words, standing up.

- «Shall we go?» He said then to his  friends who had spent time smoking quietly.
  

I followed them in good spirits, though I would have preferred that nice chat did not end there.
Outside, in the street, the insignia  of cinemas, shops, theaters and nightclubs began to shine. London night moved its first steps towards another interlude of triumph and madness against the gray routine of the day.

- «At the next concert in the square I get a glass from you!» - Ruben told me while approaching  with his friends a small street that would bring them home in the Soho district.

- «Be cool!»Phil told me, packing on my shoulder.
- «And also fresh!» echoed Jon lifting two fingers of his right hand in greeting.

«And do not do as Jim did, always putting much water on it!» Ruben said jokingly, turning to his left shoulder and greeting again with a gesture of his hand.

I watched them a little further, with their slouching walk, almost looking to dance with their long hair in the wind and their colorful and eccentric clothing, crossing with a guy in gray dress and black tie, carrying a 24-hour briefcase who  was coming  in the opposite direction.

It was a moment. It almost seemed to me like the man was walk without his head,  carrying it into that square suitcase.

lunedì 16 luglio 2018

The story of Mr Winningoes - 9




I resolutely threw myself heart and soul into brain’s study. I felt that I had to create a super brain in order to be reproduced and form a race of super-men able to drive on the right direction this dregs of humanity that inhabits the world.

After some rough attempts of surgical engineering, that occupied me for different years, whose initial success and following disappointed bitterness, almost led me to abandon the whole project, it was the fate to intervene showing the right way to me.
Which kind of proof  would I more need to wait for? The same celestial stars directly showed me the way!

9. to be continued...
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martedì 26 dicembre 2017

Memoirs of London - 15



15.


Chapter Three 
Leicester Square 

In the  morning, right in that day,  when all the white collars and secretaries in London were already at work, as previously agreed, I called  the Office to find out what would have been my place of work. Lucky gave me a hand: Jim, the guy who led a great selling point had forfeited the day before and that  made  vacant the position he occupied in one of the most important squares around the West End. 


When I got to the shop in Leicester Square I introduced myself to  an  Eastern Arab manager whose  name was Ibrahim.  He gave  a careless glance at my badge and  showed me my positon the back of the store, where I found the machine "Carpigiani", the milk to make the ice-cream, the  cones and some chocolate bars they called flakes to be served as "optionals" squeezed in the cream on top of the ice cream cone.
 In addition I had provided, right next to the ice cream machine, a dispenser with two trays, one for the orange juice and the other for the lemonade that I made it myself with running water and concentrated juice.
 Taken up position at the front of the store and, proud in my white apron, I began my new adventure of ice cream seller  in the Brian Brook Company.
Leicester Square is a square not far from Piccadilly Circus. You get access from there through  two short but commercially important streets: Coventry Street and New Coventry Street.
In the way to the wide  Trafalgar Square, instead, heading south, all  around the National Gallery, in a street called St Martin,  there is another special category of street's traders: the itinerant painters!

Students from the Academy of fine arts in London and from  the High  Artistic schools around the world, amateurs, skilful men  in the art of painting and portraiture; young emerging artists and old decayed artists; aspiring artists or assumed, all converge in this corner of London to offering passers-by the result of their inspiration onto canvas, for a fee that can range from a few pounds for a portrait or a caricature done right there, to much more  expensive  portraits in different  styles and subjects, with the hope  to leave to his descendants  maybe the equivalent of a Van Gogh. Although few tourists, to be honest, had the courage and the business acumen to invest and bet on the pictorial talent of those strangers, anonymous exhibitors;  and not least, it is certain that everyone, including the merely curious, breathed some fresh air authentically Bohemian because, beyond the artistic value of those painters not sedentary, passers-by were to appreciate the skill, ease and freedom with which they expressed in their art their existential anxieties, actual or alleged that they were.   In the more immediate vicinity of Leicester Square there are plenty of  box offices, theaters, pubs, discos, restaurants, clubs, bars and nightspots, bureaux de change and clothing stores; the latter, mostly, are the property of Indian and Pakistani traders, open seven days a week, from nine in the morning until late at night. The presence of several offices of the change machine was a safe attestation of cosmopolitan  London especially for the attraction made to foreigner visitors by this place.
.. to be continued...

sabato 18 novembre 2017

Memoirs of London - 13


CHAPTER II
TOMMY

13.
Tommy belonged to the old guard of the Italians in London.
He worked illegally and at the same time he perceived the weekly unemployment allowance which officially was due  for being fired from the factory where he had previously worked.
But  according to his personal opinion it  was instead a form of reimbursement of the taxes paid in those years.
 Afterwards, he sentenced, in a society like the English, where a pair of gloves for fox hunting cost a hundred pounds (that he was more or less how much he earned for a selling mirrors for a month in the street ( inclusive of  Saturdays and Sundays) is not surely up  to the proletarians like him make economy.
Moreover  he had to defend himself in some way from the inflation invented by bankers and masters to exploit the working class.
 And since the escalators in London were only in the subway, he defended himself by perceiving that little government aid that, coupled with the variable payroll of the mirrors, allowed him to live quietly.

Tommy (as they called him in London, but his real name was Tommaso) was a bourgeois guy, of those who, in the eyes of the majority, could  never justify their anxiety or their dissatisfaction in the society.
High, long-limbed, and with regular facial features (I admired him and a little envied him for the ease with which he attracted the women’s gaze) Tommy  was endowed with a willing and determined character that, combined with his affectionate and altruistic charisma, instinctively wore you to love him,  well despite some of his contradictions which himself  was unable to explain and  which he did not even realize.
 But the latter thing was a common trait of  the generational movement which I also belonged to.

He had left Rome in the early seventies, when the dream of a more liberal society had already been broken on the barriers of respectability  and bourgeois hypocrisy. So, disappointed by the betrayal of that working class in whose union he, activist of the student movement, had blindly believed; still overwhelmed by that youthful rage that in the ideal years of '68 had released the highest vital energy; shocked, unbelieving, that the bloody boom was just the outbreak of an air bubble rather than the first crunch of the fatal collapse of a weary system, to be cut off at all costs; with the desire to forget and to find the more than ever living animosities of emancipation; driven by the fascinating cultural appeal of the new frontier of the movement, which in the shadow of the Big Ben sought refuge and regeneration in those years where the instances and the search for a new identity of a restless and shaky West seemed to find, if not an answer,  at least a reverberation of hope and ransom in the crises and illusions of Oriental myths, of which the capital of the former British Empire for its past colonial and vocation constituted the ideal and secure outpost; uncertain, helplessly and  confused, he was  passively dragged into London by one of those energetic currents, as mysterious and inexplicable as invisible and uncontrollable that impetuously are capable of dragging the fate of whole peoples and nations.

- "Ciao," I said, getting  behind him from a narrow alley.
- "You bloody scared me," it was his lusty response.
- "Excuse me Tommy! You were so overwhelmed that I could not resist the idea of ​​a joke. How are you?
- "Well, well .... And you? Did you find a job at last?
-"Yes I did! A company for which I have worked in the past has promised me to summon me ..... maybe next week ....! Do you know those machines that turn milk into cream, hang on by souvenir shops along the streets ...? "
- "Ah, yes, I seem to have noticed them, sometimes. Tourists seem to be crazy for them, don’t they?
-" surely they do! But also British seem to like them a lot.
- "Then it is even better! How much  do they pay you? "
- "I  work a 10%, ‘you know?"
- "And how it comes weekly?"
-"I do not know! It depends on the position! There at Oxford Street there would be a lot, but I will not be sure of that! Given my past experience, however, I could also have a good pitch! Ihope well...
- "I have spoken to my boss anyway! I was waiting for you to call me at home ... "
- "Yes, I called you, but you didn’t seem to be there..."
-"Didn’t I?! When did you call? "

He always spoke in a calm, almost indifferent tone, as if his words were the story of other people, not his owns. That day I felt in his voice an unusual emotional thrill.

- "I called a few days ago. Then I knew about the ice creams would take me back and I did not try again…’ you know? I just came to say hello to you! “

He  smiled slightly, seeming to regain his indifferent air as usual.

- "What did your boss say by the way?" I went on.
- "He said the place is available for you"
- "well I'm glad hearing it; thank you. Anyway,  I try in the ice cream now; Later, if they do not give me good wages, I might be asking them .... "
- "As you like! Do not worry, the work here is easy. And then maybe you'll take my place. Here is good enough ... "
- "How are you leaving?"
- "I’m going back to Italy"
- "Do you go on holiday?"
- "No, not on vacation. I'm meditating a more challenging step, a more important choice. Here in London I just broke. Think that yesterday the police broke into the house while there was no one and when I came back I found all my stuff out of the door ... "
-"Do not tell me! Another certainty of London that crumbles .. "

I was genuinely sorry for that news, not just for my friend, but for the fact in itself. I paid five pounds of rent for my furnished room on Caledonian Court Road, but I had always been fascinated by these free-lance communities that in  London were called  squatting houses, because, according to my way of thinking at that time, it was more appropriate to occupy unlived  houses that let them empty and lifeless.
At that time, I only considered the sociological and cultural aspect of the squatting phenomenon without worrying about the economic aspect, especially from the point of view of the owners of the houses .
Anyway, so things were going to happen, even if the situation was  to change seriously very soon.
- "Bloody Hell," Thomas continued, "only last year they would not be allowed to do such a thing! Crushing a squatting! "
- "I heard that they were about to issue a new Squatting Act .... do they have already done it?"
-"No I do not think so. I would have known if they did. The Conservatives are still on  the opposition but  they are getting stronger ... "

Again I noticed in her wards  that unusual emotion.

- "Where are you living  now?"
- "I have sheltered in the house of friends, in Fulham; They are organized; There is always someone at home and if they all leave, especially in the evening, they leave the lights on. And even the houses on the side are occupied by squatters: families of unemployed workers, poor devils. There they will not dare to break through …"
- "So you're okay, right?"
- "Yeah, maybe it was all there!"

He stared heavily in my eyes as if he were considering the importance or the opportunity to continue talking. I supported her gaze, then I offered one of my cigarettes. He continued after breathing smoke into the sky.

- "But tell me what am  I still doing  here? I'm bursting, ‘you know? I do not even remember what I  came here for and what's worse, sometimes,  I do not even remember who I am! My life, my thoughts, my actions are so different since I live here! Who is the real Thomas, do I ask to myself? It was only yesterday that I fought, albeit naively, to change society and  today I’m living  in a cloud of illusions, in a space which  I don’t even know the course? "

His unusual tone lit up my congenial polemic force and as I could, I tried to face him, also because, although he did not know the course, as he said, I felt I had to continue my journey; moving forward and without turning back.

- "Movement always follows a course, in my opinion! We need  to wait! We are in a moment of stasis; Soon clouds will light up! ...

- "No! Enough it’s  enough!" He  interrupted me abruptly, "I want to go back to earth, I have to tie myself to my past, to my true story! And, by the way,  what movement are you talking about?"

13. to be continued...

mercoledì 1 novembre 2017

Memoirs of London - 12





 Other street traders I knew in London were "the mirrors sellers". Except for a few apart in  some isolated places, the mirrors sellers were mostly located in a narrow net of roads around the famous Carnaby Street, the real commercial hub of London’s tourist and rolling on since the epic of the Beatles.
 A little already decayed, but still a great attraction in the second half of the seventies. All the range of the consumer’s  symbols and the new western mythology, which also might be found in the T-shirts sold as souvenirs in the many stores that occupied the short road, the kingdom of cheap and quick tourist shopping , alltogether with the symbols of London, were reproduced on mirrors of different formed and sold on the street in front of those stores, which also constituted their store and warehouse.
From  Marylin Monroe to Humphrey Bogart; from Gin Beef Heart to Coca Cola; from the stylized liberty models to Union Jack, passing through the Irish beers Scottish whiskey, rock bands and even the Royal Family, everything was reproduced on those colored mirrors, gently framed and sold from a minimum of 99 pence to a maximum of £ 20 depending on their size and from  the buyer's tourist wallet and luggage.
The mirrors sellers of this area were almost all Italians or Spanish people.
Young people who had come  up to London in order to study English  language and know the city.  Or may be escaped from the economic and political climate of reflux and, in any case, all invoked by the great fascination that London's capital of Rock Music still exercised on the young people of that poorer Europe and they sought, together with greater freedom, a job that allowed them to   live in a decent way, relying only on their strength and without weighing on the family. Among the Italians stood the young freak looking , distinguished by the seemingly cluttered appearance .

I called them the minor brothers of the sixty-nine revolutioners. But among the mirrors sellers  of Carnaby Street there was an authentic and remarkable representative of the former young’s revolution whose name was Tommy.
12. to be continued...