<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Confrontation with Baba Yaga</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Angola<br>I saw Baba Yaga <br>come out of the wood<br>and in the blue sky<br>she hanged dark and hideous<br>with a canon in her beak<br>and rockets on her sides<br>that draws red lines <br>when she eats soldiers <br>by wiping them out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No uglier witch<br>you could get anywhere<br>and she hanged bony<br>in the air<br>above our heads<br>while she collected skulls<br>with a shrilling noise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Day after day <br>we were on recognisance<br>and she was there<br>until a stinger missile<br>fired by a Unita soldier<br>dragged her from the sky<br>and she went flaming to the ground<br>and ploughed a furrow on her side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[References: ”In a number of East European and Russian myths, Baba Yaga is a cannibalistic witch who lives in a hut on the edge of the forest. She is also called Jezi-Baba or Baba Yaga Kostianaya Noga ('bone-legs') , referring to the fact that she is rather skinny. She is regarded as the devil's own grandmother.” Confrontation with a Russian Hind helicopter gunship.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=397778" data-title="Confrontation with Baba Yaga de Gert Strydom" data-description="In Angola I saw Baba Yaga come out of the wood and in the blue sky she hanged dark and hideous with a canon in her beak and rockets on her sides that draws red lines when she eats soldiers by wiping them out. No uglier witch you could get anyw..."></div> </div> </div>

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