After the Demonstration
Protect yourselves from the panic that
spreads soon after blood stains the asphalt
protect yourselves from the club of the cop
the accusation of the informer
from the indifferent crowd
who will fill the streets again
protect yourselves from the spring, the following summer
the travel arrangements and personal reveries
from the two future husbands
who argue where the dead people were laid
protect yourselves from the poets
who steal verses from graves of the unknown.
Manolis Aligizakis 