By now, one can no longer count the
obligatory traveling papers that a large number of anarchists throughout Italy
have been burdened with. This modern ostracism, on par with so many other
democratic poisons, is a further enclosure with which to build the City of
tomorrow, the City of the Good.
The police headquarters said, “move along”.
The police headquarters has so many papers. As many as there are things and
individuals to number, inspect, file, supervise, warn, punish. However, not
everybody keeps their papers in order, not everybody wants to keep them. And
for this reason there is one paper among them all called the “traveling paper”.
Anyone who disturbs, anyone who does not fall into line, anyone who thinks out
loud, is ejected, driven out, banished. Every authority is traveling paper for
those who do not obey, for those who don’t submit when they say, “It’s the
law.”
They have distanced us hoping to confine us
in that mental police headquarters that is resignation.
Useless toil, we don’t even think of taking our place in line for
a prohibition.
Traveling papers are traveling papers, and
documents, …documents burn.
Banished
anarchists