Juan Garrido-Salgado 2 # 21-21 Second Part of Dialogue with Samuel Lafferte

2 # 21-21

(Second Part of Dialogue with Samuel Lafferte)

 

 

Yesterday,

 

I remembered,

 

an encounter with Samuel Lafferte

 

when we read together for the first time

 

About Headaches by Roque Dalton.

 

 

In another part of the city

 

They were pack of drunken poets

 

in a row at midnight, crying with a love poem by Pablo Neruda

 

on the gutters at the Alameda Avenue & Plaza Brazil

 

.

While Samuel and I

 

attended a clandestine meeting

 

with young militants and crazy

 

poets

 

and Samuel called for silence and reads some of

 

Roque’s verses

 

Under capitalism our heads hurt

 

 and our heads are ripped off.

 

 In revolutionary struggle the head is a time bomb

 

Then we all went out to paint the walls against the dictator.