In Which Carmen Writes Yet More Creepy Poetry

A little backstory on this one: during World War II, many Italians, especially Northern Italians, joined various resistance movements. A major partisan center was Bologna, where resistance was strong, well-planned, and highly effective. As a result, the Fascists in power at the time rounded up several hundred of the young men who had played a part in the movement, imprisoned them, and then marched them up one of the hills surrounding Bologna to Sabbiuno, where they were shot and left in a sort of improvised mass grave in the valley beneath. I just came across my pictures of the memorial there now--a chain of barbed wire from the top of the hill to the spot at which the bodies came to rest, which is commemorated by a single white cross. All along the top of the hill are boulders, some of which bear the names of the men killed but many of which are blank because the resistance fighters who correspond to them are still unidentified.

( The Execution )