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Yannis Ritsos: A Selection from the Forties 85 Freedom or Death, Freedom or Death, Freedom or Death this wind shouting with all its lungs and Thea Kali with the megaphone in the convertible with other neighborhood women Thea Kali shouting with a megaphone: "Vangeli, Vangeli, Vangeli, today your mother sees the whole world Vangeli" Thea Kali without her black scarf and Kyra Leni beside her fluttering her two hands like two big doves Kyra Leni amid her three children, Kyra Leni smiling again amid the people on October 12, 1944.* It was cold. December was drawing near, you see. We hastened We had to gather data. To complete the lists of our martyrs we had to make the new bases for the organization. We had to write our songs. We didn't have time then. How could one catch up ? What could one catch up with first? In the nights when the stores' shutters are lowered over the show windows with the tired lights just as iron nets are lowered into mythical depths — in the nights lots of traffic is noticed from English jeeps lots of traffic by some big, closed, silent cars. The bars lit up, English soldiers drink beer, appear at the doors in the lighted squares one sees them throwing up they come out on the sidewalks and piss. These soldiers, here, as if they were, they say, at home. What home of theirs? These soldiers reel, drunken, stumble, shout, sing as if they had pebbles on their tongues. What are they singing for? Ah, this wind does not want to stop, it blows, blows, blows, shakes the hearts and the flags brings down the tiles of sleep its hammering echoes in the night — it nails a huge coffin, it makes a cradle the wind, the wind beat after beat. How long will they crucify the light on the doors? How long will you be able to remain silent? How far will the knife reach? * The date on which Athens was liberated from the Germans.
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