Luigi — Alien Comrade

Tristano Ajmone & Luigi — WAPR Congress
(World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation)
Athens 12^th October 2006.

We meet briefly at conferences ... and then we meet again after months or years, but the eyes tell no lies, and the heart is not forgetful, so I and Luigi recognize each other from far away, amongst the crowd (I’ve lost over thirty kilos, he’s grown a beard) — how is it that we always recognize each other, even abroad, amongst hundreds of people?

Is there something binding us, my comrade? In the sadness of your eyes — so deep and sincere — I see the reflection of my past, which I can’t neither forget nor share (except with a few kindred souls).

Two different stories which interweave their plot around the same sufferance, at the rythm of the same alienating social indifference.

But the eyes and the heart don’t tell no lies!

Hold on Luigi, mi friend and alien comrade, because you’re not alone!

Tristano

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