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In 1980, they said:
we are fighting
for the dignity of the working man
In 2004 to the unemployed who came
to a job interview
a small director
of a small company came out and said: I need five males and five females...
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I cry less and less often
I laugh less and less of ten
I am turning into stone
Mother
You who wronged the simple man, bursting into laughter at his suffering...
in the hospital room
between drips
anesthesia
head trepanations
every day around three in the afternoon you ask me to check
if dinner is ready
because the boys will be back from school soon
I ask where it is cooking
there - you answer
pointing your head
towards the corridor
where other patients are lying waiting for their operations
Czesław Miłosz
styczeń–marzec 2025
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