"First," with a statement from Aimé Césaire.
"We had very good reason to believe that the authorities
were lying.
We're not omnipresent, which meant the authorities would
at some moment arrive, the thing we knew, to see clearly
and to think clearly, that is dangerously,
and to answer clearly the innocent first question.
And still, we carried concealed on the highways.
We hushed the horses' mouths.
We put our heads to the horses' mouths
so we wouldn't be lonely."
That's the shortest poem in the book.
Most of them are very long.
I'm--