Naso Rosso
Red Nose

It was early Monday morning: 
a dirty day, degraded and devoid of any peace.

People went to work by any means, 
traffic was flowing sluggish 
people were walking between bags of rubbish.

Time flowed unevenly, 
up and down, back and forth. 

Every emotion had been compressed, 
boxed, repressed, 
inserted in the card of a small screen 
and frozen in a machine. 

People were transformed into a single mass in action, 
devoid of imagination.

Scribbles and nasty injuries 
had covered the walls of bad memories.
Smog and squalor
had eaten every color 
except... the Red of a Nose.

It all started from that nose, 
on that early Monday morning,
the exact moment it decided to fall down 
by rolling through a line of white stripes downtown.

Down a manhole 
the Red Nose fell and rolled, 
changing a very sad Matt
into a happy acrobat.

A gust of wind… and Red Nose 
Got caught in the bare branches of a tree.
Then it was picked by Evelina, the old lady,
who turned into a little baby.

Red Nose stumbled, toppled, 
dropped and wobbled.
It ended in a hospital, in the bag of Doctor Pepper
Who make people get better.

Here Red Nose changed Doctor Pepper into Peppy,
The clown-doctor that makes everyone happy.
Every injection became perfection
every tear became a cheer
until a big sneeze came out of the blue... 
ACHOO!

It bounced between the electric voices 
speaking from small TVs inside the cars
giving choices:
“Turn right. Turn left. Recalculating”
The asphalt was hot, the temperature got high on the spot.
Then a springboard appeared on the track, 
And Red Nose made a big jump… ZAP!

Red Nose grew a lot, really really a lot,
it was tall and high, up in the sky.

No signal, 
the city is dismal.
All the screens suddenly fall silent. 

At home, in the office, on the street, 
people lift their heads up to the sky,
and finally meet.

Keen eyes, small noses,
faces look like primroses.

All at once,
One, ten, a hundred Red Noses
Began raining down and bounce.

Fear, anger, amazement, disdain, 
people started feeling emotions again.

With Red Nose on their faces
people changed their looks.
They were happy people in happy places
They looked like characters of a book. 
Bishops, fools, acrobats, 
jacks, lovers, astronauts.

Then a hundred hands became a thousand applauses!
Two thousand car-horns a million musical notes and pauses.

Even the greyness blushed
and the winds were hushed. 

And that dirty day, 
degraded and devoid of any peace
finally became 
an amazing masterpiece.