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THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE
(one of it manifestations)
Those who
in most cases
want to make revolution
for History for logic
for science and nature
to win arguments and even
to appear finally in the newspapers
and not simply
to put an end to the hunger
of those who are hungry
and the exploitation
of those who are exploited.
It is natural, then,
that in revolutionary practice
they only concede before the judgment of History
morality humanism logic science
books and newspapers
and refuse to concede the last word
to the hungry the exploited
who have their own history of horror
their own implacable logic
and who will have their own books
their own science
nature
and future
-- Roque Dalton
trans. Richard Schaaf
from 35 Poems (Azul Editions)
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