'Sti radiazioni atòmichi
pari ca 'un fannu nenti...!
A mia sai chi mi fìciru?
... Sugnu fusfuriscenti!

Iu vitti ca spugghiànnumi
'nta càmmara, a lu scuru,
comu na lampa illùminu
lu tettu e puru u muru!

A lu spitali dìcinu
ch'è cosa passiggera,
anzi a bulletta elettrica
la pagu cchiù liggera!

Ma a mia nun mi cunvìncinu,
iu vogghiu riturnari
com'era prima, semprici,
normali e naturali.

La notti 'un pozzu dòrmiri:
mi dugnu timpuluna,
picchì c'u lustru vèninu
muschitti e zappagghiuna.

Però già mi prumìsiru,
si nun finisciu mali,
un postu di Cumeta
'nta l'àrbulu 'i Natali!

TRADUZIONE
CHERNOBYL EFFECT
Atomic radiation...
seemed harmless to mankind!
What did it do to me?
It made me luminescent!
I saw when I undressed,
in the darkness of my room,
that I glowed like a lamp,
lighting the ceiling and the wall!
They told me at the hospital
it was a passing thing,
in fact... I pay much less
for my electric bill.
But I am not convinced...
I would like to return
to what I was before:
a plain and normal man.
At night I cannot sleep...
I often smack myself
because with all that glow
gnats and mosquitoes come.
But they've already promised me,
if things don't end up badly,
a position as the Comet
upon the Christmas tree!