Nazim Hikmet - Human Landscapes

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Looking at this insolent earth,
you hear the first battle cry of our species-
trap it under a rock
and together, screaming, attack
and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

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At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.

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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot
and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

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