TO FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

 

Casella di testo: They went on saying that it would never hold up, that building you'd designed with those central pillars meant to work like a waiter's hand to carry a tray around. They said it was never ever going to stand its ground. Smart and educated men from this world traveled long distances out east where you were they chanted the local news on how crazy you had become, harsh and sleazy their opposition had grown its tongue. Deaf and dumb to the yells and shouts of this world you built it anyway, that crazy thing of yours, as you had drawn it, as the spirit held it. So there it was, and the whole world felt it.                                                 

 

 It was a terrible earthquake, that of 1922,

 Tokyo city was stricken by a harsh blow too.

 Among the few things still standing was the glory of your building.

 The waiter's hand had wavered but it finally was still holding.

 

 Very soon many people who had lost their homes

 found good shelter and comfort inside your rooms.

 How long they stayed in your hotel I just don't know,

 but I hope they felt at ease before going back to their homes.

 

 

 

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