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Nazim Hikmet - The Strangest Creature On EarthNazim Hikmet - The Strangest Creature On Earth
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You`re like a scorpion, my brother, you live in cowardly darkness                     like a scorpion. You`re like a sparrow, my brother, always in a sparrow`s flutter. You`re like a clam, my brother, closed like a clam, content, And you`re frightening, my brother,                 like the mouth of an extinct volcano. Not one,     not five— unfortunately, you number millions. You`re like a sheep, my brother:                     when the cloaked drover raises his stick,                               you quickly join the flock and run, almost proudly, to the slaughterhouse. I mean you`re strangest creature on earth— even stranger than the fish               that couldn`t see the ocean for the water. And the oppression in this world                             is thanks to you. And if we`re hungry, tired, covered with blood, and still being crushed like grapes for our wine,                                           the fault is yours— I can hardly bring myself to say it, but most of the fault, my dear brother, is yours.
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