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I'm Explaining a Few Things

I'm Explaining a Few Things

and from every dead child a rifle with eyes,
pile-ups of palpitating bread,
from every socket of Spain
the texture of roofs with a cold sun in which
of pride and knives!
Come and see the blood
and from every crime bullets are born
and clocks, and trees.
came through the sky to kill children
the weather vane falters,
and from then on fire,
bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,
vipers that the vipehttps://read.99csw.comrs would abominate!
of Spain tower like a tide
The blood in the streets.
bandits with black friars spattering blessings
My house was called
the stalls of my suburb of Arguelles with its statue
wave on wave of tomatoes rolling down the sea.
which will one day find
And one morning all that was burning,
Brother, my brother!
a deep baying
Spain emerges
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of feet and hands swelled in the streets,
generals:
and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?
Remember, Raul?
Everything
Jackals that the jackals would despise,
instead of flowers,
and the great volcanoes of his native land?
Come and see
Eh, Rafel? Federico, do you remember
I lived in a suburb,
without fuss, like childrens blood.
loud with big voices, the salt of merchandises,
the light of June drowhttps://read.99csw.comned flowers in your mouth?
Im Explaining a Few Things
Face to face with you I have seen the blood
gunpowder from then on,
In the streets!
its words and drilling them full
the house of flowers, because in every cranny
from every house burning metal flows
measure of life,
stones that the dry thistle would bite on and spit out,
Treacherous
the bulls eye of your hearts.
geraniums burst:九九藏書 it was
from under the ground
a leather ocean.
and from then on blood.
one morning the bonfires
my balconies on which
speak of dreams and leaves
and the rain repeatedly spattering
leapt out of the earth
Ill tell you all the news.
And youll ask: why doesnt his poetry
stacked-up fish,
look at broken Spain :
a suburb of Madrid, with bells,
with its dogs and children.
Pablo Neruda
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the fine, frenzied ivory of potatoes,
From there you could look out
a good-looking house
Bandits with planes and Moors,
Come and see the blood in the streets.
You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?
over Castilles dry face:
oil flowed into spoons,
like a drained inkwell in a swirl of hake:
of apertures and birds?
see my dead house,
and the blood of children ran through the streets
to drown you in one wave