Hommage to Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75)
“Come i poveri povero, mi attacco
come loro a umilianti speranze,
come loro per vivere mi batto
ogni giorno.”
Poor as the poor I cling, like them, to humiliating hopes; like them, each day I nearly kill myself just to live.
From: Le ceneri di Gramsci (The Ashes of Gramsci) 1954
English translation by Norman MacAfee
Arabic translation by Mustafa Ja’far