Manolis Anagnostakis Poems

- You're betraying Poetry again, you'll tell me,
Man's most sacred expression
You're using it again as a means, a pack-mule
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In Egyptou Street -first turning rightThere
now stands the Transaction Bank Building
Tourist agencies and emigration bureaus
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Actually, we shouldn't complain.
Your company's good and congenial, full of youth,
Fresh young girls - stout-bodied lads
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Are you for or against?
At least answer with a yes or with a no.
You have thought about the problem
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Now I speak again, like a person who has escaped from a plague
I visit my friends; I know many who have been saved
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Seven days
One after the other
Bound together
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In the morning
At 5
The dry
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Now he is a simple spectator
An insignificant fellow in the crowd
Now he no longer applauds nor is applauded
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Remember me telling you: when the boats whistle don't be in the port.
But the day that was leaving was ours and we didn't want to ever let it go
A bitter handkerchief will greet the tedium of return.
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We were all together
Unfolding tirelessly our hours
We were singing in a low voice
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