'If bad seigniory, that always grieves
Subject people, did not move
Palermo to yell: - Death, death! '
Dante

Palermo,31st March 1282. It is time of the Vespers.
In the Verdi's opera, Elena gets married,
The bells announce the wedding as well as the riot,
Elena wanted to revenge herself the same.
Nevertheless those Sicilians were brave compared with their descendants,
The unionists that wanted the Angevin instead;
New harlequins servants of two masters, they would have rescued the Hoenstaufen, too,
Those eunuches served three or four owners, including some local bossies.
I thank my schoolfellow Gianni Ansaldi
Who presented me with the poems by Trilussa:
'- Er popolo che fà? - Se gratta.
- What about the people? - They're scratching themselves'.
The new joint venture seld the ticket to the people.

Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

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