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Yannis Ritsos: A Selection from the Forties 83 Ah, this wind does not want to stop. It blows, blows, blows, stirs up the voices and pages of History, strips up the sparks from the fires of the world, shakes violently a big forest of hopes, tears the flags of the Ministries, for a moment stops to tie its shoelaces behind the singed stone wall and flees, flees. For years now and it hasn't stopped yet. Strides over the windows of the burned houses. Wears the boots of the dead. Its footsteps are heard on the asphalt, are heard on the bare plain sown with bones, are heard on the high mountain with the skulls and the crows, are heard in the trenches and the night camps, and when the bugles at the camps sound taps the footsteps are heard even clearer. This way the tanks — this way, this way. 'What does he point at with that outstretched finger — policeman #44 — ordering death with the boots — ordering death outside Athens, outside Greece, outside the world — what does that outstretched finger point at high up? The lowering of the swastika on the Acropolis, there's the Greek flag hoisted Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah. Freedom or death freedom or death — the people in the open cars shouting — and the leaflets and the people chasing the leaflets and shouting hurrah stumbling over the tanks and shouting hurrah hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, freedom or death, freedom or death — the people in the open cars shouting freedom or death, freedom or death the people who fought and fell who fell and smiled who kissed the people and smiled who pulled the wedged bullet out of their chests with their fingers and came back among us and fought and fought and smiled.
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