Chile already said goodbye and now I'm a week and northern Argentina. As time is short to write this Blogtotal Blogsearch, I turn one last time to Neruda and Everything But Target is kept alive. It is one of the texts that I liked the book Song of Gesta.
not ask me
They call this human issue some
with names and wailing
not concerned in the pages of my books,
not give writing my verses:
say that poetry died here,
some say I should not do:
the truth is I'm not liked,
greet them and I take my hat
and left traveling on Parnassus
like rats on cheese.
I belong to another category
and am only a man of flesh and blood,
so if they beat my brother
with what I have to hand the defending
and every one of my lines has
danger or iron powder,
that will fall on the inhuman,
on cruel, on the proud.
But the chastisement of my peace furious
no threat to the poor or good:
with my flashlight looking for those who fall
the close:
and these are the offices of the poet
Flyer and stonemason:
must do something in this
land because on this planet gave birth
and we must arrange things men
because we are not birds or dogs.
Well, if I hate when attacked,
or when I sing all I want,
poetry wants to leave
the hopes of my manifesto
I follow my law tables
star
and American duty
I do not care about a rose:
I have a covenant of love with the beauty:
I have a blood covenant with my people.
-Pablo Neruda (1960)
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