NEW POLISH WRITING
Your happiness peace and sleep
dissolve in that coffee
a good bromide
You 'Il swim across that brown ocean
shake yourself
and start longing
for calm
forgetfulness
days and nights of easy sleep
WITH FULL RESPECT
You are not prisoners says the commandant
this is something else entirely
you gentlemen should not feel you are prisoners
We're going out calls the duty man
quick line up all together gentlemen
The guard a woman with long eye lashes
adjusts the revolver on her shapely hip
and warns us of course you gentlemen realize
any escape attempt will mean death on the spot
ADVICE FROM AN EXPERIENCED PRISONER:
DON 'T FIGURE THE DATE
Don't figure the date when you'll be out free
It'll come and you'll still be here
Failed hope is like a poison
The day'll come but don't think about it
like you don't about death
Let it come by itself like death
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