Being very busy these days. I find it easy to post poems. here are some poems of Roque Dalton.
(Roque Dalton (1935-1975) was a Salvadoran poet. Dalton was a Communist and organized peasant resistance to the Salvadoran government. He twice escaped death in legendary fashion – arrested and sentenced to death in 1961, the Salvadoran government was overthrown the night of his planned execution; again in 1965, he was arrested while in exile in Mexico and sentenced to death – but on the night before his scheduled execution, an earthquake destroyed the walls of the prison and he escaped again. Ironically, Dalton was finally killed by his own people in 1975, during a power struggle among revolutionary groups.
Published widely while in exile in Cuba and in Mexico, these poems by Dalton are from Taberna y otros Lugares (Taverns and other Places), written and published in 1969 during his time as a correspondent in Prague.)
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HEADACHES
It is beautiful to be Communist,
although it causes many headaches.
You see the headache of Communism
is supposed to be historical, that is to say
it does not yield to analgesic tablets
but only through the accomplishment of Earth Paradise.
Tell you what, it is the bomb!
Under Capitalism when our heads hurt
they just take our heads.
In the Revolutionary Struggle, the head is a retardation bomb.
In Socialist Construction we plan our headaches
which does not make them scarce, quite the opposite
Communism will be, among other things,
an aspirin as large as the sun
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