La Stia (Hen-coop)

Milan, Summer 2002

Argentina, I am crying for you
Miramar, my home town. Pampas. Sky. Clouds. Space
A whirl wind.
South, south, south.
The territory is a prisoner of the barbed wire

A pear case of Argentina, a little flute in the shape of a green frog.
It makes me think of the ex President, Menem.
He could go in and out of the hen-coop as he wishes,
   while we were shut in.
The sky is not enough to fly when you do not have wings any more.

The irony of the fate is that the barbed wire was invented in Argentina!   

Notes, Summer 2002.

The actual political and economic situation in Argentina make me anxious. This is the result of years of corruption in the political system. Many years ago, a film was made showing Argentina as a country permanently flooded, and the name of the President was Frog.