"THINGS CREATED
(from "The Sonnets")
In the world, God made everything worthy:
He made everything good and everything beautiful.
Good is the winter, better the firewood:
Good enough to sketch, better the knife.

Good is the holy faith and who teaches it,
Better who believes in it in their brain:
Good is chastity, better the freggna:
Good the ass, and very good the dick.

Only in this I find the lack,
That he could, thinking about it a little,
Create red water and white wine:

Because at least no murderous host
Would now come with such a face to the counter
To sell half water and half wine."

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

Poet • Italy • 19th century

  • knife
  • Chastity
  • eau

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