Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume I

Fake Passport

The woman shakes a blanket from the window

The blanket slips off her hands spreads in the air

slowly orderly horizontally The woman looks on smiling

she jumps on the blanket off the window The blanket becomes

heavy closes like a sack hovers and stops This sack is

lifted by a calm man going upward to the sky

in wide strides He also knows that he lied

For that reason he has turned his back toward

the big door of the printing company from where

three newspaper sellers come crying without newspapers

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