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...
...Their monuments-roeks...
...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...
...with sad, human faces...
...The silence is total...
...Where s the key to the future...
...Where is the key to the ce of Che Guvara...
...The peasants give me no answer...
...The valge where Che Guevera was killed...
...Where is the key to the school?' The peasants answer: "We don't know, sir, we don't know...
...Horse dung-the posthumous chrysanthemums...
...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...
...Por agutleros around her there are no monuments...
...With your name industry wants to buy new customer...
...Only the buzzard flies...
...The clouds re motionless, like thoughts, like thoughts of the Bolivian mountains...
...I feel the mell of death Ths wall is white like the candle of the boat left abandoned to its fate...
...Your pictures, Che, are printed on shirts You plunged into the i They want to turn you into smoke...
...Whee is the key to the school...
...But you fell, riddled by bullets, by poisonous smiles not to become later merchandise for the consumer society...
...I am filled with t creeks, of severe, hard rocks...
...Comandantel in Paris I saw your portrait on little pants called "hot...
...Comandante your precious name they wish to sell so cheaply...
...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...
Vol. 5 • October 1971 • No. 6
