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I'll start with a poem called
"A Poem for The Government,"

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sort of in honor
of our new bombing.

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The poet as mentioned in the
poem is Miguel Hernandez.

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He was a great Spanish
poet, who Franco in prison

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and then died very young,
I think around 30 years old

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of tuberculosis in jail.

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"This poem is an onion.

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It's the same one Miguel
Hernandez's wife wrote him

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about in jail before he died.

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That there was
nothing else for her

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and the baby to
eat except onions.

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So he wrote a lullaby for
the child about onions.

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I awoke from being a
child, don't you awake.

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Don't even know what
happens or what goes on.

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This poem is an onion
for you Mr. Old Men,

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because I want
tears from you now

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and can't see how
else to get them.

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I want tears for Miguel
now, for the poor people

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and their children.

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And for the kids you
hate going around,

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cunt frontwards
full of carrying on

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and bad shit like
mercy and despair.

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I offer this, because everything
else with life and tenderness

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in it, you've eaten.

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Everything good in the world
eaten, everything in my heart

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eaten.

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The poor eaten,
the babies eaten.

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Miguel eaten, now eat this.

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This is one onion.

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Your history and legacy.

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It is all there is in our
lives, this and tears.

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Eat this."

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