Renato Guttuso, Occupazione delle terre (1946)

What?
What?
He broke his arm?
Now what?
On the other side
He’ll learn to write.
What what
He broke his heart?
Now what?
On the other side

What? What?
He broke
his joy?
Take the glue and stick it
to pain, because it has to
be jointed all over again.
Import the glue from Spain,
from the Caribbean, and mix it with
dew, flour and honey.
Glued pain should bend,
Bend still bend to feel
the shoulder of a friend.
Bring the scissors to open
sealed ears to sweet waving sounds of
melodies, softly healing the pain in
the sweet soothing song of the rain.