<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360067" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bees build around red liver, <br>Ants build around black bone. <br>It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks, <br>It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam <br>Of gypsum, iron sheets, violin strings, trumpets, leaves, balls, crystals. <br>Poof! Phosphorescent fire from yellow walls <br>Engulfs animal and human hair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Bees build around the honeycomb of lungs, <br>Ants build around white bone. <br>Torn is paper, rubber, linen, leather, flax, <br>Fiber, fabrics, cellulose, snakeskin, wire. <br>The roof and the wall collapse in flame and heat seizes the foundations. <br>Now there is only the earth, sandy, trodden down, <br>With one leafless tree. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Slowly, boring a tunnel, a guardian mole makes his way, <br>With a small red lamp fastened to his forehead. <br>He touches buried bodies, counts them, pushes on, <br>He distinguishes human ashes by their luminous vapor, <br>The ashes of each man by a different part of the spectrum. <br>Bees build around a red trace. <br>Ants build around the place left by my body. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I am afraid, so afraid of the guardian mole. <br>He has swollen eyelids, like a Patriarch <br>Who has sat much in the light of candles <br>Reading the great book of the species. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What will I tell him, I, a Jew of the New Testament, <br>Waiting two thousand years for the second coming of Jesus? <br>My broken body will deliver me to his sight <br>And he will count me among the helpers of death: <br>The uncircumcised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Czeslaw+Milosz">Czeslaw Milosz</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360067" data-title="A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto de Czeslaw Milosz" data-description="Bees build around red liver, Ants build around black bone. It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks, It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam Of gypsum, iron sheets, violin strings, trumpets, leaves, bal..."></div> </div> </div>

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