Che--a Poem
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Our borses ar walking to la Hgluera* To m left-the abyss, to the right-the abyss. To think of you, Major, Is not a heavy load. Within me is a silent ache, resembling the earthquake. I am...
...I am filled with t creeks, of severe, hard rocks...
...The clouds re motionless, like thoughts, like thoughts of the Bolivian mountains...
...Por agutleros around her there are no monuments...
...Comandante your precious name they wish to sell so cheaply...
...But you fell, riddled by bullets, by poisonous smiles not to become later merchandise for the consumer society...
...Only the buzzard flies...
...Whee is the key to the school...
...with sad, human faces...
...Your pictures, Che, are printed on shirts You plunged into the i They want to turn you into smoke...
...Comandantel in Paris I saw your portrait on little pants called "hot...
...Fear of not finding t, panic grips me, but the key s in our handsof that I amncertain Boys: to shout promises and not to fulfill them, that's crapl Our own stumbling has deceived the others To the left, boys, always to the left but not beyond the left of your own heart...
...Where is the key to the ce of Che Guvara...
...The valge where Che Guevera was killed...
...The peasants give me no answer...
...With your name industry wants to buy new customer...
...My nerv are tense as the bridle of a cowhand Th rhythm of this poem s ditated by hornehos, stumblng against the stones of this deadly path...
...Horse dung-the posthumous chrysanthemums...
...The silence is total...
...I feel the mell of death Ths wall is white like the candle of the boat left abandoned to its fate...
...Where s the key to the future...
...Omandante, your hands were svered in the square of Valie Gande Comandante, over your death the wild flowers and gultarsr sing But, The young do not surrender, the young, forward Ours are the hands of Ce, they cannot be cut...
...Their monuments-roeks...
...Where is the key to the school?' The peasants answer: "We don't know, sir, we don't know...
Vol. 5 • October 1971 • No. 6
