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Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski | Poems Rethabile Likes

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Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski | Poems Rethabile Likes Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You've seen the refugees going nowhere, you've heard the executioners sing joyfully. You should praise the mutilat...