A short walk along the edge of the new year, the practice abandoned, the urban decay and the cheeky faces on the walls

Plastic glasses, a few bottles of sparkling wine, several boxes of fireworks ripped.  No trace of broken dishes. No one that, fallen by accident, it is just crumbled. At nine thirty in the morning around there is nobody yet. The few you see are far apart, with a dog on a leash. The first greetings I exchange on Tuscolana, at the height of Numidio Quadrato, with a Bengali, sitting next to a petrol pump. Who would, moreover, to take a walk at this hour? By this weather, to boot. It is not clear if it will hold. Anyway, I prefer not to move away from metro. If you begin to rain, I just need to make a few meters and to go down.

 “They didn't shot so much last night." "For me, like all other years." It was in these terms that, once, during the first walk of the new year, we commented that remained on the streets of  the fireworks. When it was not raining, there was more flavour. Like artificers, we scoured the neighborhood looking for those not exploded. With a little of  reckless, we set off them, turning what was left of the fuse and then we ran away as fast as possible. At lunch, then, we followed with apprehension the usual reportages of the tv  about the night before. There was always someone who had put back at least one hand.

A refrigerator, a desktop computer with its printer. They are the only waste, so-called bulky, of which someone has taken advantage of the end of the year to get rid. It's eleven o'clock, when, before the sacrament of the Church of Don Bosco, I go back. I almost feel a bit of disappointment, though the old custom of throwing something out the window, once very common, we can not say it was a great sight to see. More or less like this cheeky faces that from some days they have begun to occupy all the walls, without any regard. You can bet that will be the their selves that, once elected, they will come to talk to us about the urban decay and on the need to give a good lesson to whom smears, destroys and loots.