Anthology of wounds - Arct

MAKENSEN BUNGOAnthology of WoundsBorn in the Elbasan in 1927,he finished the Normal HighSchool of Elbasan, and the HighInstitute of Pedagogic Studiesat the Faculty of Language andLiterature. He then worked formany years as a teacher.In 1946 was arrested andsentenced to a prison term offive years for anticommunist activity.His published books include “The death swamp,” a novel,1996, “Abaz Kupi” 2000, and “Kosova,” poems, 2002.Fragments from “DEATH SWAMP”The sky was still with stars and the dawn was still faraway when the whistles of the policemen in the camp wereheard. It was time to get up. Then the policemen came inevery booth, where they hit the doors shouting:-Get up! Get up! Get out! In line for two!The prisoners tired from the long road had not slept enough.The oldest that were used with this kind of waking hours, gotup, wear their clothes and got out. These 5 persons got out withthe others too.-Will we bear to live in this kind of camp? –Hasan askedme.-These are dictatorship camps, Sopot said-We are in a military state- Ahmet deflatedThere was Daut Burra after them.178