I’ve just got married. A tin ring at my finger, nothing more. Because gold and silver is all gone to make the country’s good.
I’ve still orange blossom in my pocket And a love letter which I wrote for him.
But then they lifted me up into a wagon: That’s where my honey-moon has been. A forced trip with other cattle to be slaughtered In amongst the cold, the stench, the hunger.
Love words in this hell. I’m nothing but a number now. And how can a number speak of love?
Excerpt from “Auschwitz” by Firenza Guidi.
First presented in Fucecchio (Fi) Auditorium La Tinaia Saturday 31 January 2009