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Synthesizers Pantelis Theodoridis
Poems Miltos Sachtouris
Thessaloniki 2 013

Miltos Sachtouris -The Gifts

Today I put on
a hot red blood
today people love me
a woman smiled at me
a girl gave me a shell
a child gave me a hammer

Today I kneel on the pavement
and nail to the sidewalk
the bare white feet of passerby
they are all crying
but no one is afraid
they all stay where I put them
they are all crying
but gaze up at the heavenly ads
and a beggar woman selling sweetbreads
in the sky

Two of them whisper
what 's he doing is he nailing our hearts?
yes he 's nailing our hearts
well then he must be a poet