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by Hikmet, Nazim

...
 apart from the time you have left,
you won't say,
 "Better I had swung from the end of a rope
 like a flag" --
You'll put your foot down and live.
It may not be a pleasure exactly,
but it's your solemn duty
 to live one more day
 to spite the enemy.
Part of you may live alone inside,
 like a tone at the bottom of a well.
But the other part
 must be so caught up
 in the flurry of the world
 that you shiver there inside
 when outside, at forty days' distance, a le...Read more of this...

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