Invitation For Garment Sale

Hands fairy

I'm back in Rome this afternoon, I write from a hostel in Rome, are in a room lit by green lights, walls of lime stone, brown wooden tables, as well as the chairs, on the bar a row of colored bottles of spirits, beer and light bulbs, one red and one orange stripe. Under the green lights there is a large rectangular mirror to fill the wall. This afternoon I went back to the Termini station to the first track. That's weird. Walk the streets and live are two things light years away. Everything appears in a different light. You're in a hurry, you have an appointment, the mind ahead of the curve racing, anticipating the body in steps, focusing on the post, what to do and what to say, and you lose all around and the mean time. Then you stop for a second and remember the days spent out of curiosity. Then open your eyes light up with curiosity and then swarming with lives, bodies and looks that are around chasing each other without even knowing it.

Portraits. Oscar worked as a thief. It has stains on his fingers. When he was in jail the doctor has diagnosed an allergy to dust the walls of the cell. "That tells me 'You have your hands the most delicate I've ever seen.' And I said, 'You should think so, Dr, I am a thief by trade, I know that some' sensitive '." It begins to sing the praises of his fingers long and slender, with your fingertips slightly flat, which enables a better grip. It can extract the portfolio without the victim being aware of his fingers digging into his pocket. Tell us happy and proud of its achievements, the makeup of the needle with the old lady, the risks run every time. A hit gone wrong for so little, a friend, shoulder, made of Rivotril, he started to sing as he did the sfilamano for the little pecks the madam.
Now hopefully only in a nice wallet, then stop. Then he lets slip that the proposed work, great stuff. Speak softly, looking around. He earns well. Is assessing the risks, he comes from a mafia family. One hour of work for fifty thousand euro. It must also involve his wife, Tiziana, the decision by tomorrow morning. If the shot goes well, tomorrow we should all eat at the restaurant, it offers him.

[From "Rome homeless", January 15, 2005]

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