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Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - Piraeus Detainees' Transport Section
Identifier
029418
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
From Selected Poems, tr. N. Stangos (1974)
Piraeus Detainees' Transport Section
Half a blanket under, half over; fever; cement; damp;
sweaty hair; inscriptions on the walls scratched with finger-
nails -
names, dates, small covenants; the same nightmare
opening holes with the same torch: ‘tonight’, ‘tonight’
‘at dawn, tomorrow'. Who will be left here to remember us
when the key is heard in the lock and the long chain
is dragged on the endless white where, on one side,
the last cigarette we'd thrown down still smokes.
The source of the experience
Ritsos, YiannisConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
InsecurityLoneliness and isolation
Losing your independence
Psychological trauma
Tuberculosis