POEM BY MANOLIS ALIGIZAKIS
FIRES
Ancient fires still burning
inside the temples
outside the porticos
center of the agora
where an eloquent poet once
orated verses before
the paranoid oligarchy
expelled him from the city
images that come to us
and nothing has really
changed over the eons
except the invention
of bullets to speed
the process of apathy
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