<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Strangest Creature On Earth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You're like a scorpion, my brother,<br>you live in cowardly darkness<br> like a scorpion.<br>You're like a sparrow, my brother,<br>always in a sparrow's flutter.<br>You're like a clam, my brother,<br>closed like a clam, content,<br>And you're frightening, my brother,<br> like the mouth of an extinct volcano.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not one,<br> not five--<br>unfortunately, you number millions.<br>You're like a sheep, my brother:<br> when the cloaked drover raises his stick,<br> you quickly join the flock<br>and run, almost proudly, to the slaughterhouse.<br>I mean you're strangest creature on earth--<br>even stranger than the fish<br> that couldn't see the ocean for the water.<br>And the oppression in this world<br> is thanks to you.<br>And if we're hungry, tired, covered with blood,<br>and still being crushed like grapes for our wine,<br> the fault is yours--<br>I can hardly bring myself to say it,<br>but most of the fault, my dear brother, is yours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk (1993)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nazim+Hikmet">Nazim Hikmet</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=468523" data-title="The Strangest Creature On Earth de Nazim Hikmet" data-description="You're like a scorpion, my brother, you live in cowardly darkness like a scorpion. You're like a sparrow, my brother, always in a sparrow's flutter. You're like a clam, my brother, closed like a clam, content, And you're frightening, my brother,..."></div> </div> </div>

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