- published: 29 Apr 2014
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Musocco is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city, located north-west of the centre in the direction of Varese. The prominent structure of the district is the Cimitero Maggiore (also known as "Cimitero di Musocco"), Milan's largest cemetery. Before being annexed to Milan (in 1923) it was an autonomous comune.
Musocco existed at least since the 12th century. In 1869, several adjacent comunes (Garegnano, Boldinasco, Villa Pizzone, Cassina Triulza and Roserio) were annexed to Musocco, which in turn became part of Milan in 1923.
Coordinates: 45°30′32″N 9°07′58″E / 45.50889°N 9.13278°E / 45.50889; 9.13278
If eyes are the mirror of the soul
You will find in my the scorn and apathy
You will read my hatred as in a curs'd book
You will see yourself as I see you
It is a mirror sombre and opaque
Which protects me, which stifles me
A great ditch around the heart
Which rejects, which estranges me
There is a world in my head
A dead world where nothing lives
And it is there I am, too far,
Far too far to be rejoined
A crown of thorns is still a crown
I am a king in a kingdom of suffering
I have taken my time to reach this stage
I have taken pains to torture myself
To descend, to descend
Into pain, I exist
And I my brain is numbed
The thorn in my flesh
Can overcome apathy
There is glory in humiliation
A throne to be taken, a crown to win
I have no more tears,
And my smile has lost its brilliance
I have forgotten who I was,
I have killed my emotions
Crushed, empty, weary,
Always standing, I am a tree