WHAT CAN THEY
What can the interrogator and the interrogated tell each other?
What is the common language in which they could talk?
That language is mountains away and there is no fool
who would set out in search of it
The knife enters the animal's flesh without consent or prior
mqUlnes
the apple won't strike up a chat with the rifle bullet cast off in the
grass
the liar's tongue turns round like a rotten mill-wheel
and the water won't sing in chorus with its creak
Longing for freedom is like a lark flying straight up
towards the face of God and the sun
with unshakable faith that the face will finally be seen
The little lark flies faster than the stone thrown by a foolish bully
Oh the dialogue of the shoe and the crushed weed
the dialogue of the pale warden and the young face paler still
the dialogue of force and martyrdom
cruelty and pain
the martyr and the torturer
before it's cut short
by whom by what when
Wiktor Woroszylski
FASCIST NATIONS
Shortly after the war of 1914-1918 the first fascist nations
emerged in Europe
In
those nations
the sun rose and set at the usual time shedding light
on homestead roofs and hills' green slopes Cattle
mooed gently in cowsheds Mothers kissed
their children's foreheads to wake them at dawn Fathers returning
from
