Fourth Poem of a Canto of Accusation by Costa Andrade

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There are on the earth 50,000 dead whom no one mourned

on the earth

unburied

50,000 dead

whom no one mourned.

A thousand Guernicas and the message in the brushes of

Orozco and of Siqueiros

as broad as the sea this silence

spread across the land

as if the rains had rained blood

as if the rough hair were grass for many yards

as if the mouths condemned

at the very instant of their 50,000 deaths

all the living of the earth.

There are on the earth 50,000 dead

whom no one mourned

no one…

The Mothers of Angola

have fallen with their sons.