Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Clay: 12

Yannis Ritsos

This and that
were repeated.
Especially if lies were told.
Even death gets undermined.
In the next room
feet tapping the rhythm
of a music
that can't be heard.

Athens—January 17, 1978

from Clay (1980) [Collected Poems: IDelta ---pg 85]

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