… who were swept away from the police in order for the spectacle to continue uninterrupted.
One morning I will open the door
and I will go out in the streets
as I did yesterday.
And I won’t be thinking about anything other than
just one piece of the father
and one piece of the sea
-those two pieces they didn’t deprive me of-
and the city. The city which they transformed into a rotting corpse.
And our friends that are no more.
One morning I will open the door
straight into the fire
and I will enter as I did yesterday
shouting “fascists!!”
constructing barricades and throwing rocks
with a red banner
held high, shining in the sunbeams.
I will open the door
and it’s time to tell you
-not that I am afraid-
but, see, I want to tell you that I didn’t make it in time
and that you have to learn
not to be going out in the streets without weapons as I did
-because I didn’t make it in time-
because then you will disappear as I disappeared
“like that” “in the void”
cracked into little pieces made
of sea, childhood years
and red banners.
One morning I will open the door
and I will be gone carrying the dream of the revolution
within the infinite loneliness of the paper-made barricades
bearing the label -do not believe them!-
“Provocator”.
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I’m surprised the Spanish / Catalan bourgeouisie decided upon repression (and not just because Barcelona FC is playing) rather than ignoring the occupation and letting it wither away- But from what I’ve heard, Place de Catalunya had issued the most radical demands/manifestos out of all the occupations…I hope all of Spain burns tonight with the people’s rage.
i’m surprised that this poem is being used, i’m sure katerina would have criticised the nature of the protests in spain.
“and that you have to learn
not to be going out in the streets without weapons as I did
-because I didn’t make it in time-
because then you will disappear as I disappeared”
Katerina would fucking spit on those “nonviolent” assemblies! You maggots stand for everything she fought against with her poetry.
PS: Fuck you for deleting dissenting comments! You show how little respect for free speech your reformist culture has.
…and that was exactly the point of publishing the poem here (how I understand it), you moron: to tell people, don’t make the same stupid mistake over and over again: take arms.
The people will learn their lessons as they go along, just as the Barcelona assembly did- and it will happen again, and they will learn, too slowly for some, but they will learn… For if they don’t they will be inviting the ‘Iron Heel’ to crush their faces, and their children’s faces, forever. So before ‘taking arms’, they need to get off their knees and stand on their feet…Then be beaten down, once, twice, more…then take up arms. This is just the beginning.
@Mr Nothing:
Yes it was deleted and I *do* understand the point of this post (unlike Jimmi). The idiots I was addressing got the message.
There’s no accounting for taste.
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