A.D. 4000 D.C. [English translation]

My double-bodied carburated friends

were taken back by the Founder of summer

An old man plays with cards, the bank breaks1

after his escalation, he's very tired.

On trees, chloroformised monkeys

tell the stories about fairies

A painting by Guttuso being sold at an auction at the market

does a five-year plan of sin

This year

a deserter winter

announces Sapporo's bankruptcy

Tangerine2 and warm milk street3

I don't know it, where will it take [me]?

It's a wheel that spins

and spins and goes away

but comes back and then leaves4

it spins, spins and goes away.

A zabaglione5, blood and honey[-coloured] sky

makes me feel small and cruel

A hundred-tracks recorded tape

reminds of the anthropomorphic voice

of the man of the year 2000

A mouse bricked over in a music hall

tip-tap dances on its motocross

wrote an alien from Venus emigrated

one light-year away from his city

It's a wheel that spins

that spins and goes away

but comes back and then leaves

it spins, spins and goes away.

1. "far saltare il banco" means "to break the bank" when gambling2. "Mandarino" means both the fruit, the colour of Tangerine but also Mandarin Chinese3. from how it's worded, "Tangerine and hot milk" is the name of the street, but "strada" in italian also means "way", so he might mean a specific way of doing things4. "partire" means both "to leave, to start a journey/trip" both "to start an engine or a mechanical device".5. a foamy cream made of eggs

• Artist:Rino Gaetano