KANSAN Comment
Dove with olive branch
Hecuba in Vietnam
Hecuba: "Achaians! Your strength is in your spears, not in the mind." Euripides, The Trojan Women
All your strength, America is in your bombs!
What were your eagles are now carriers of death.
Strange loves twitch in your sermons.
What fear drives you to this terror?— to drive people into the trenches and tunnels, to poison their land.
What fear makes you kill the children of Vietnam so savagely?
—pounding them to bits with your bombs.
What shame! —to crush down the weak, to force them under the earth.
(Little Astyanax could at least ascend to the tall walls of Troy and gaze at his City for a moment, nobly, before the terrible plunge.)
The wail of Hecuba is rising against you, America. rising from the wounded throats of Vietnamese mothers.
Let the faces of underground children shine in the sun!
- Thanasis Maskaleris
(From Where is Vietnam?, Walter Lowenfels, editor. Doubleday and Co., Inc., Garden City, N.Y., Copyright 1967.)
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