(A memory of 'Gelsomino in the Country of Liars' by Gianni Rodari)

Total cases of COVID-19 in Italy - 41,035; Deaths - 3,405 (March 20, 2020).

'Cito, longe, tarde...*
Tarde, longe, Cito...'
Where I will run away
Without self-confidence?
Dogs are like cats,
Cats are like dogs.
Cows are like horses,
Horses are like cows...
And they all
Are like humans...
The bakery sells ink,
which call bread.
There is a law:
Whoever doesn't lie,
That is really ill...
'Cito, longe, tarde...
Tarde, longe, Cito...'
Where I will run away
Without self-confidence?
I'm Gelsomino,
Without Romoletta...
I'm Gelsomino,
Without Zoppino...
I'm Gelsomino,
Without Pannocchia...
I'm Gelsomino,
Without Bananito...
I'm Gelsomino,
I'm lonely at all...
'Cito, longe, tarde...
Tarde, longe, Cito...'
Where I will run away
Without self-confidence?
I'm Gelsomino...
I'm Gelsomino...
I'm Gelsomino,
Without medical vaccines
In the Country of
Coronaviruses...

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* The age-old wisdom of Galen and Hippocrates to ‘fly quickly, go far, return slowly', or in the Latin: 'Cito, longe fugeas et tarde redeas' (Other translation: 'Quick, flee distant and come back late.') was a motto used in Medieval Europe during plagues and epidemics.

2020