Un biglietto del tram [English translation]

In Corso Buenos Aires

all day the trolleybuses are passing there

and armored cars are passing there (too)

with handcuffed prisoners

who are looking, and aren't seeing.

Poor Fogagnolo, he wasn't a cinema actor:

he introduces himself, he gives you a chance,

he whispers his surname and first name

from the list of the victims.

And he has made me a gift:

a tram ticket

to come back in Piazzale Loreto

Esposito at the gardens

is reading the want ads,

and you see him on one hundred benches,

or waiting in never-ending queues

he's asking for justice, and (he wants it) now.

They gave to Poletti

seven letters on a gravestone,

and the people who pass by and see them

reckon a bit, and then they ask themselves

- Isn't that a useless expense?

- Wouldn't have a ticket sufficed?

a tram ticket

to come back in Piazzale Loreto?