Abraham Sutzkever

1913 - 2010 / Smorgon, Russian Empire

Dance Of The Pygmies

Pygmies of Sahara in the circus of the moon —
Living chess pieces moved by madness,
Glimmering with bloody knives,
Black-silver bodies —
Dance their vengeance against tallness:

Tallness must be sliced with bloody knives.
Tallness is stupidity striving to the lord.
We, short-grown, devouring locusts,
We shall destroy all tallness to the core.
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