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My grandmother broke chickens’ necks<br />
Mia nonna tirava il collo ai polli<br />
My grandmother broke chickens’ necks.<br />
She would take their necks and slam<br />
them in the drawer of an old rough<br />
wooden dresser.<br />
They would struggle desperately until<br />
they breathed their last and kicked<br />
the bucket once and for all. Then<br />
there was the plucking stage, with<br />
hot water and an acrid smell that<br />
spread all around.<br />
I have not seen a chicken plucked<br />
since then, but that noxious smell<br />
of blanched feathers has remained<br />
with me. Now here, in this photo,<br />
there is a plate with a plucked bird<br />
chopped into pieces. Disgusting.<br />
Ever since my grandmother slaughtered<br />
them and I watched dumbfounded,<br />
I don’t eat any type of bird. I find<br />
that plate of giblets horrifying.<br />
I know that for some people the<br />
heads of birds are a delicacy.<br />
Not for me.<br />
To tell the truth, I couldn’t even<br />
tell if what is on that plate is a<br />
chicken or another type of fowl.<br />
But it disgusts me just the same.<br />
I wouldn’t like to be the person in<br />
the light blue shirt watching this<br />
macabre scene.<br />
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Mia nonna tirava il collo ai polli.<br />
Li prendeva per il collo e li<br />
stringeva dentro il cassetto di una<br />
vecchia credenza di legno grezzo,<br />
in barchessa. Quelli si divincolavano<br />
disperati fino a che davano gli<br />
ultimi scossoni di vita e tiravano<br />
le cuoia definitivamente. Poi c'era<br />
la fase della spennatura, con l'acqua<br />
calda e un odore acre che si<br />
spargeva tutto intorno. Non ho mai<br />
visto da allora spennare un pollo,<br />
ma mi è rimasto addosso quell'odore<br />
pestifero delle penne sbollentate.<br />
Ora qui, in questa foto, c’è un<br />
piatto con un uccello spennato e<br />
fatto a pezzi. Disgustoso. Io, da<br />
quando mia nonna li sgozzava ed io<br />
stavo a guardarla attonito, non<br />
mangio nessun tipo di uccello.<br />
Quel piatto di frattaglie mi fa<br />
orrore. So che per alcuni la testa<br />
degli uccelli è una leccornia. Non<br />
per me. A dire la verità, non saprei<br />
neanche dire se quello sul piatto<br />
sia un pollo o qualche altro tipo di<br />
pennuto. Comunque, mi fa schifo lo<br />
stesso. Non vorrei essere la persona<br />
con la maglia azzurra che contempla<br />
questo macabro spettacolo.<br />
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08 / 09