<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392356" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poem for Marius Schoon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Boers blew up Marius Schoon<br>His very own people turned traitor on him<br>He was activist teacher and volunteer<br>Well maybe he was a communist<br>In those days they blew up communists<br>I'm sure sometimes they still do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Except it wasn't Marius they got<br>Exiled in Angola's own deep south<br>His wife Jenny little daughter Katryn<br>Were the bodies splashed around a room<br>By the blind force of a parcel bomb<br>Delivered to his infant son</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was tense all the time shaggy and bright<br>Poet hippie-like curmudgeon<br>You better not cut up the supper meat wrong<br>He called me 'f-ing liberal' in rage affection<br>And never cursed the names of traitors<br>Even when forced to flee in the night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cancer caught him in the long run<br>After the walls had been torn right down<br>He had known prison exile family loss<br>Democracy sweet in all its tasks<br>And all through the hearings commissions of truth<br>With his killers he would not reconcile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I never thought for a moment he should.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</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=392356" data-title="Poem for Marius Schoon de Frank Bana" data-description="The Boers blew up Marius Schoon His very own people turned traitor on him He was activist teacher and volunteer Well maybe he was a communist In those days they blew up communists I'm sure sometimes they still do Except it wasn't Marius they got ..."></div> </div> </div>

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