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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.

— Nâzım Hikmet

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

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

My country or the stars
Or my youth, what's farthest?

The strangest of our powers
Is the courage to live
Knowing that we will die,
Knowing nothing more true.

It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

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