[PEN-L:103] Re: Chile

["Gar W. Lipow" <lipowg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Walker wrote:
> Tommorrow, September 11, 1998 is the 25th anniversary of the coup in Chile.

When Neruda died during the coup, my late father wrote the following:

Neruda

I will not mourn for Neruda, no crooked cross
Can foul his dreams with the stench
Of graveyard breath, the albatross
Will grin on the tyrant's bloody trench
But Neruda will still sing

Together with a holy man called Cesar
Neruda will sing, and together
With crimson fury of a lead guitar
hurling rebel rock forever
at the vultures head.

And when the raging barrios
In California stretch brown arms to join
Black one in New York alleys, Santiago's
Snarling bullet and rattling coin
Will not buy his silence.

In the harvest fields of California,
And the coal mines of Appalachia,
And the agony of Cambodia
On the smoldering streets of Uganda
And the river banks of India
And with Jose Marti in Cuba
And in El Salvador named for the Savior
Neruda will still sing.

By the late Shay A. Lipow


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