The GALLI and crickets ......... By Peppe Bloom IGALLIEIGRILLI
Pianopoli 1944
Allied armed forces, past fast for Calabria, found it hard to move up the Peninsula. Pending the final victory in Pianopoli, they spend their days filling up the course and llu bar and Micu. (Domenico Ceniviva bar) and talk, they shouted, he harangued. Everyone had something to say and he said showing off their culture, their experience, their imagination. It seemed you wanted to redo all the silence imposed by the former regime.
The war had brought death and misery, but the Fascist period, in Pianopoli, had gone relatively smoothly. The few hierarchs had been discriminated against in a few bars from the competent Court at the same and Zaccone, the only declared the country's anti-fascist, who had spent almost the entire two decades in exile, he dared not acknowledge any roll round their
Tandu the pianopoletani were compact as a pine cone, and although each had a different idea pignuolo politics, we all wanted equally well: it was a joy to everyone's delight, the pain of a pain to everyone. The more serious mingled with the noisy and they were competing for the audience. But the most turbulent were the boys, who, hungry for news, hung from the lips of Zaccome .. this, that in those days had much in common that is in the barracks, declared libertarian communism, and had brought back from exile and disclosures above among young people, ideas anarchist that everyone, in turn, spread according to its own interpretations, creating, in the Community, a huge mess. In this context
village, that young people do well to get better illustrate the grandparents, some people then, as Camerinu, u Bardascinu, Giuanni Aculinu and many others are still in the sympathy of the elderly today. They were people who gave so much joy and gave the starting point for any kind of irony and sarcasm.
One afternoon, Giuanni Aculinu (John Catroppa) harangued the crowd massed in front of aluminum bars and Micu. He was trying to say, with the most colorful arguments, ruled that as long as the leaders and the owners was finally over and that democracy would give all powers to the sovereign people. The speech was often interrupted by applause, but also with whistles and other noisy dissent. The defendants broke out, however, ending in a big applause when Giuanni Aculinu at the end of him, cried: "It is finished as long as the roosters ate crickets. It 'now time that the crickets eat the roosters. "
Among the children enjoy and applauding, there was one who was preparing for licensing examinations gymnasium, but also delighted to stain paper with watercolors. Micu asked to do a bar card, and the next day he appeared publicly posted outside the bar, a painting depicting a cricket in the act of eating a cock. Cheers, laughter, more the comments, starting point for further pleadings and other great laughter.
But from that day on the speaker and the painter, among them, due to the different age groups, there was never any closeness, became the prototypes of the strangest and most vague Left pianopoletana the nascent democracy.
And even now, after more than half a century, someone reminded me, complaining of cumulative study is cambiatu paise nuastru
Peppe Bloom g.rifio @ alice.it
