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EL PEPE A SUPREME LIFE

I have always said that if Uruguay were a very big country,

the world would probably say that Social Democracy

was invented in Uruguay.

And that marked our entire history and our way of being.

That is why, until 1950,

we were considered as very unusual in America.

They called us the Switzerland of America.

After 1950, reality demonstrated

that we were Latin Americans.

But we left behind a strong legacy

that has influenced all of us.

The other influence

were the years we spent in prison.

We were imprisoned and alone

so to survive, we had to...

To think and rethink a lot.

We owe so much

to those years that we spent in solitude.

In fact, we wouldn’t be who we are

if we hadn’t had

such dramatic and adverse circumstances.

To me, what I’m telling you may sound cruel,

but I think that man learns more from pain and adversity

than from triumphs and easy things.

Our struggle will continue

despite...

how many years are left to give

by this, and by the next generations.

But socialism will come.

My admiration for nature is so profound

that deep down...

I consider it to be like a god.

The world, the mineral universe,

the hydrogen universe,

is so gigantic,

and so small

the amount of life that we can conceive and touch,

that it fills me with affection for life.

Manuela.

I’m going to shower and shave, and I’ll...

I’ll put on a suit.

I’m going to wear the same suit

I wore the day I became president.

I sent it to the dry cleaners and it looks like new.

The best leaders

are those that when they leave,

leave behind a group of people that surpass them greatly.

This is a collective fight,

a fight of generations. Thank you.

So, on the last day

of Pepe’s presidency

he said

to the people:

I’m not leaving, I’m arriving.

Which meant

that the struggle and dedication went on.

MARCH 1, 2015 LAST DAY OF PEPE MUJICA’S PRESIDENCY

INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, MONTEVIDEO

We were active in the student movement,

doing social work at La Teja

and with the sugarcane workers in Artigas too.

Hello.

Pleased to meet you.

EX-MINISTER OF DEFENSE EX-MEMBER OF THE MLN

The government started the repression,

particularly on all those movements,

during the beginning of the ‘60s.

We met each other there.

In La Teja, El Cerro, the humble neighborhoods,

doing social work.

His name was Facundo.

He also joined the MLN.

And well, we were always together in everything.

And we ended up...

not being able to communicate throughout those 13 years.

We know every jail in our country.

I spent years inside them,

thirteen years.

Day and night.

A lot of what I’m telling you now

was born during that time of solitude in jail.

I wouldn’t be who I am today.

I would be more futile, more frivolous, more superficial.

More result oriented, more short term.

More triumphant.

Probably. More...

blinded by success.

With more of a statue-like pose.

Yet all of these things,

of which I am not,

could be said about me had I not lived...

those ten something years of deep solitude.

That’s why...

it’s a curious thing, Kusturica.

What I’m going to tell you is something that you cannot,

you can’t take it at face value.

Sometimes what’s bad is good.

And sometimes...

It’s the other way around, what’s good is bad.

CELEBRATION OF PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION MARCH 2010

Do you see the people gathering around, around...

The folk call him

My General

The folk call him

My General

With his voice he makes the darkness go away

And even the stones know

where he’s going

And even the stones know

where he’s going

The world is upside down.

You should be here on stage and we should be celebrating you,

because this battle,

you fought this battle.

No one owns the truth!

It needs all of you!

Tomorrow, the nation continues

and the commitment continues.

Comrades...

This is told,

and asked and begged for

by an old warrior.

At this point in my life, I don’t need money.

Not at all.

I don’t need more than what I’ve got.

Besides...

now I’m creating a foundation,

with my house, the farm, the fields...

And the school, it will all go to a foundation.

I will include some neighbors,

so they will be able to manage it and support the school

and continue the project,

because we have to prepare for the trip with no return.

Since I don’t have children

and I don’t like the inheritance laws very much...

And if I leave it to the state, it’ll be taken over by bureaucracy.

Which is worse than the bourgeoisie.

Yet in a time long past You were deeply mine

Amidst a saddened landscape Barren of love

You came on an autumn day Your name was María

Brother...

Tango is pure nostalgia.

It’s about what you had,

and what you didn’t have.

It’s for people who have learned to lose in life.

You need to have suffered a few defeats

before you start to like tango.

My life with Pepe

was very important

because we united two utopias,

the utopia of love and the utopia of political struggle.

Oh, how I want to cry

On this grey afternoon

While falling from the sky

The rain whispers of you

The regret of knowing

That because of me, love I will never see you again

That allowed us...

to overcome a lot of ups and downs

and complex circumstances we had to live,

and to have many beautiful moments.

Trembling while I beg The rain whispers of you

The regret of knowing

That because of me, love I will never see you again

And here was where a part

of Uruguay’s story of pain came to be.

These doors weren’t here before.

I was a young man still.

There was something called Center 1.

At that time, the prisoners...

The so called political prisoners

were mixed with the common prisoners.

The common prisoners learned a lot from the political prisoners.

While

the common prisoners

never had poets, nor singers,

nor human rights or anything of the kind.

They had violent policemen.

This place looks completely different.

The central corridor was located here

with tables and benches.

And the cells were distributed over there in a circular fashion.

This was a prison in which I was held.

It’s a bit different now.

I want to think for a minute

in something I would call an innovation

because some innovations are poisonous.

For example, the person that came up

with the idea to put a camera on mobile phones.

It’s made me run late so many times...

I spend hours just rooted there, bearing with it.

People have gotten very creative with cell phones.

And they’ve added a number of things to them.

Since I’m old

and I suffer from prostatic problems, just like any old person.

I’m waiting for them to add a toilet to the cell phone.

Of course, a cell phone with a toilet, for old people.

It should be made of rubber, it should be elastic.

With a button to flush it and that’s it.

I am Brazilian.

It’s a pleasure to meet you.

Everything is very different.

You killed us with these artificial flowers.

You killed the industry!

No... We have real flowers too.

Yes, I know, but these ones are spectacular.

And they last forever.

Simply put:

Men fall in love with women and women fall in love with men.

That’s how the world is.

It can happen anytime.

If we intelectualize it too much

we lose the poetry of life.

And with uncertainty

I believe men’s need for love grows stronger.

Maybe in an instinctive search for security.

It’s a way of loving life.

I am an old man,

my wild years are over.

And well, a partner is a refuge from tensions,

for both of them. Love will always be a refuge.

Flowers are rough.

They have a tender roughness.

They’re delicate.

They get sick.

They need a very intelligent agriculture,

you have to learn how to interpret their colors.

The leaves

tell you: I need nitrogen.

You have to give me phosphorous.

They demand attention.

It has been scientifically proven that they are capable of feeling.

They sell well. They’re expensive.

They’re Chrysanthemums.

But they require a lot of time.

This clearing process is expensive.

Give me another kilo of minced meat,

it never hurts to have a bit more, and two chacareritos.

The dog is more expensive to feed than a pig.

The most loyal member of my government is my dog.

-How much is it? -300.

It’s not the same to argue about private and political issues.

Political issues must have complete independence.

In fact, we’ve agreed on some things and on others not.

Commitment shows up both in success as in failure.

Because not everything in life was a success.

We never thought

that Pepe could become president.

The president of the Republic should be doing important things, not this.

What do you think of this dog food?

Nothing like those pills they sell.

It was during a time,

in quite a difficult moment.

That’s why it’s not easy to convey

how, at the same time, there can be danger

and how you can distract yourself from it with love.

Those are two difficult things.

Actually, when you live a clandestine life,

affections are very important.

One gives up a lot of things

so when a relationship, love, show up

you win a lot.

It also helped me while I was in jail

because your imagination doesn’t stop.

And it was a very short time,

because then, we were imprisoned.

Then came a long period of wait.

There were nine hostages,

three groups of three.

My group was Mujica, Rosencof and me.

We went everywhere together in the Gulag...

POET EX-MEMBER OF THE MLN

...they had put together

at military outposts across the country.

-How’re you health-wise? -Good. I was going to ask you the same.

Once somebody calculated that

the three of us lived longer together than we lived with our women.

True.

We know every jail in the country.

Because we were very dangerous,

that’s what they said.

Why were you so dangerous?

Because we were the leaders.

We had invented urban guerrilla warfare,

the unorthodox...

the ones who thought for themselves,

those who didn’t go out to start a movement in the countryside

but instead launched the best urban warfare at the time.

Made in Uruguay.

SIEGE STATE - COSTA GAVRAS

Expropriation!

We had to...

In search for the economic means that our fight entailed,

we had to commit crimes

that we called expropriations

but they were simply crimes

in the language of the current legal system.

The Tupamaros National Liberation Movement

went from being a bold romantic urban guerrilla

that took from the rich to give to the poor

to an army of armed politicians

that sheltered by their clandestine nature

kidnapped businessmen, diplomats, counselors,

and foreign agents.

They occupied cities, robbed arsenals,

banks, foreign companies

and military organizations.

We called it expropriation and it was an expropriation.

I don’t feel any remorse for entering a bank.

It’s the highest rank

of human delinquency,

not bloody,

at first,

to which you can strive for.

It’s the glory of capitalism.

To work and make money with the money of others.

Not with the labor,

but with money of others.

It is the essence,

It’s the distillation of capitalism.

I’ll give you the answer using a quote by Mack the Knife,

from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht.

Mack the Knife was arrested due to being a bank robber.

So they bring him before the judge and...

Mack the Knife’s defense in front of the judge was to tell him:

Your Honor,

will you compare the robbery of a bank

with the establishment of a bank?

It’s the best feeling to walk into a bank with a 45, just like that.

Everyone respects you.

At the time it was...

the second anniversary

of Che Guevara’s death,

and that was one of the reasons

why we decided to pay an armed homage to him,

besides other goals.

That’s why we proceeded to take the city of Pando.

We conducted a maneuver

by which we pretended that someone who had died in Buenos Aires

was being transferred to Uruguay.

His remains.

So, therefore we were to hire a funeral procession

at a funeral parlor

to bring the remains to Pando.

It was all faked

in order to obtain the vehicles and the coverage

to arrive to Pando undercover

and with an important contingent of people.

At that time we generally used...

45 caliber

and some 9 mm Luger pistols.

And some Walther pistols as well.

It was over there.

At that time

this place was a central point because there were no cell phones.

So by cutting the lines here we complicated communications.

The most dramatic moment was when they came...

Some police officers came as well.

Some of us ended up drinking beer and others were imprisoned.

Some were injured, and then healed up.

But what’s most important is that four or five days later

we were on the streets back in action.

I still don’t know why

these fascist groups spread in Montevideo.

And they started attacking the Communist party,

the Jews...

They carved...

swastikas on the girls, with razor blades,

on their thighs.

At that time, the left was small

and the unions

started organizing groups to defend themselves,

especially against these groups,

which even managed

to occupy the Universidad de la República,

with the support

and complicity of the police.

Like in Maidan.

The right wing...

Obviously.

There is no source of law

more creative

than revolutions.

Revolutions always lead

to a new legal system.

There is nothing more political than a revolution.

And people get offended when they are told

that the political ends up being

above the legal,

or rather, that the law

is the frozen expression

of a political time.

And by being frozen, sometimes it becomes

outdated as time goes on,

until another wave comes

and reforms it.

I’ve known about Svoboda for a long time,

because I know about the Gladio operation

and I know about the secret NATO army,

created right after the Second World War with the Nazi Secret Service.

When Pepe and I were in jail,

we knew they brought in people from Argentina

to Rocha.

That was in 1974.

I already knew there was a plan

of relocation...

And all...

the dictatorships of the Southern Cone.

The first military coup took place in Uruguay

in June.

The first attempt at a coup in Chile fails, the tancazo.

September, Chile.

Triple A in Argentina

and later the coup d’etat in 1976, and then Bolivia.

And before, in 1964, it had been Brazil,

when U.S. papers announced the coup in Brazil before it happened.

They got the hour wrong.

And back then the joke was:

There could never be a coup in the United States

because they don’t have a U.S. embassy there.

The Uruguayan dictatorship was part of the so called Operation Condor.

A coordination between military regimes in Latin America

backed by the United States

to stop, kidnap, torture, and make disappear

political opponents.

That time when I was arrested,

I had...

13 wounds in one leg and 12 wounds in the abdomen.

One was very serious.

I lost my spleen.

And I have pulmonary fibrosis on half a lung.

and an infected pancreas.

Yet I still walk around with a lung and a half.

I was captured in 1969

when we took the city of Pando,

and then I escaped from jail,

with Pepe.

We got out through the tunnel in Punta Carretas.

In July of 1971

the Tupamaros reach international headlines once again.

106 guerrilla fighters break out of Punta Carreta prison.

A deed featured in the Guinness World Records book

and an example of organization and resourcefulness

in the biggest prison break in history.

We didn’t have a doubt about...

the risks.

We thought: They’re guarding the sewers.

And then I was captured again

after a shootout in 1972.

I was almost dead when they caught me

because I had so many bullet wounds,

and after that, there was no getting out.

They officially called us hostages.

They were such brutes

that they told the whole world we were hostages,

that whatever happened in Uruguay,

we were going to pay for it with our lives,

or with our bodies.

Usually they didn’t give us water or they’d just give us a cup a day.

One can put up with hunger.

Thirst can’t be bared because your insides start to hurt,

you can’t stand it.

Well, we discovered the recipe.

If you urinate in a can and let it rest

so that the salt falls, when it reaches room temperature

you can drink it as if it were Pomery.

Of course!

In sips.

The only way you could drink it.

APRIL 2014

-How is the construction going? -It’s going ok.

-Hard work? -Very hard.

These women are in charge of the work.

So, we started building houses

in the poorest parts of Uruguay.

Building...

small houses

or fixing the ones they already had.

Improve it, build a bathroom, install running water.

This is the first project in the neighborhood.

-Those are two small houses together. -Yes, they’re two.

They have two floors. The upper floor is prefabricated.

This is the cheapest way to build.

The cost of construction materials in Uruguay have gone up a lot.

And the market will never give housing to the poor. Never.

You don’t have to expect to be paid for this.

You just have to give.

Plus, in the poorest areas

is where they have the most kids.

So, we started working

and we collected things from the state,

vehicles that the state didn’t need anymore or were planning to sell.

We fixed them.

We got our hands on an abandoned store.

We started grabbing

things that had been left aside here and there,

and we asked for donations.

And I give about 70% of my salary to this plan.

Every month.

Will you govern for Uruguayans and not the Monetary Fund?

And who told you that? We haven’t requested

a single dime from the Monetary Fund.

You haven’t requested but you’re following their rules.

No. We don’t have accounts with the International Monetary Fund.

-But they limit you. -Get that idea out of your head.

-They limit you. -Forget it. Everyone has limits.

You don’t have limits at home?

Do you think you are, the king of Mongolia?

-I’m in charge, not my wife. -As if!

-And what about you in Uruguay? -We do what we can!

APRIL 2015

I’m a mom with ten kids...

Now, you see it differently...

On rainy days the children peek out the window,

it’s a big change...

And the rest of the families the same.

They’ll all have it. All 86 families.

And well, we’re moving forward with that.

About 1,500 houses have already been built.

But this is all for...

the poorest of the poor in Uruguay.

Those who are in a state of indigence.

It was Pepe Mujica, he thought of Plan Juntos.

That’s where it all started.

Because he likes working with humbler people...

With kids, single mothers

who are working to raise their kids.

It’s truly a genius idea.

What are you doing here? You hug and take pictures.

Lay back and watch football?

-Football? -You do one thing...

You.

You’re getting fucked below the flags of Centenario Stadium.

-And guys like you... -Spectacular Uruguay!

And guys like you talk crap for nothing.

We’re the same age, old man!

And you know what?

It’s a shame, a shame that you are losing Uruguay.

And it’s all your fault.

Don’t act like a lazy old man.

-There are a lot of us. -You’re a fucking pussy.

-No, you are. -You’re a pussy.

I don’t even remember that.

If’s it’s not convenient for me I don’t remember it.

I’ve erased them.

Now the hardest part is left.

Now it’s not an economic problem, it’s a problem here.

When I got elected nine years ago

we had about...

a 39% poverty rate.

Nine years ago.

Now it’s at 11%.

And education has increased.

Now...

these are economic and material improvements,

not moral improvements.

Indigence stood at 5%.

Now there are about 20,000 families in a state of indigence, 0,5%.

It was a military intervention

in which he played one role and I played another.

And then I worked for a service that provided false papers

and he came in for forged documents.

At that time we used to have documents

better than the ones you use now.

They were more perfect.

We weren’t aware of it,

but it went down just like that

like a flash of lightning in the night.

And many years have gone by, and here we are.

I’m not around tomorrow.

-Where are you going? -To Maldonado.

She’s campaigning. Recruiting.

It’s easier to build a relationship

when you both share the same political cause.

Because the ideas are related

and because a militant’s life is unbearable

if the other partner isn’t a militant.

Working hours don’t exist.

Unplanned circumstances can occur, I don’t know.

My wife,

my wonderful partner, Lucía Topolansky.

Comrades!

Thank you for being with us now.

Thank you to Virginia, thank you to Daniel,

our fellows in this fight of the Party.

I always tell young militants

that the first thing that they have to do

is to recruit their partner and their family.

Make them understand what is happening.

Otherwise, they’ll be left without their fundamental support.

I’m a Republican,

but do you know what the defect is?

That the presidencies tend...

to be similar to monarchies.

Red carpet, you know?

The Republics have to be something different,

because if the majority chooses,

you need to try to live like the majority,

not like the minority.

In politics you should strive to find, dear fellows,

people with a big heart and a small wallet.

Mujica’s schedule was very intense today.

Starting with a meeting with George Soros

where the subject of marijuana

and its market regulations were present during the meeting.

Instead of hiding only behind the police measures,

try to take the hold of that market

get to know it, organize it,

and in the chronic cases, once we know them,

be able to treat it as a disease.

This is what Uruguay is attempting.

And we want humanity to observe it

and help us.

And if we make a mistake

we will admit it and improve.

But don’t think that Uruguay will become a tourist’s country

for people to go and get high, no, no, no...

Far from it. That is not our intention.

What did the different empires do?

They divided us from the outside,

to dominate us politically

and therefore take advantage of us economically.

We are living in times

in which we will have to learn English yes or yes.

And you will have to become a bilingual country, yes or yes.

Because the strength of Latin women is admirable

and they will fill this continent

with people that speak Spanish

and Portuguese too.

Europe is now becoming a U.S. colony.

Napoleon wanted a single Europe all the way to the Ural Mountains,

and Putin also wants Russia to be a part of Europe,

all the way to Vladivostok.

The United States does not.

Neither does England.

And the European countries

have behaved shamefully,

in Ukraine,

because Mrs. Nuland, when she said that Europe,

that the European countries fuck I don’t know what,

she insulted them,

the whole European Union,

and she imposed instability in Ukraine,

investing five billion dollars in NGOs.

In NGOs,

which aren’t non-governmental organizations,

they’re very governmental organizations.

That is the great achievement of the United States.

The importance of culture is immense.

Oh, I believe that the battle for culture

is the battle we didn’t fight.

Humanity won’t improve if there is no cultural transformation.

Culture isn’t just a small painting hanging on a wall,

or what you’re doing now.

Culture is about the values that we act upon in everyday life.

That’s part of building a better society.

I travel and I make so many kilometers

trying to get through to those whose decisions will shape the future.

Hello.

Good, good.

Yes, I can talk for a bit.

My wife and I have dedicated our lives to change the world,

and we ran out of time to have children.

And we’re getting closer to the end of our lives.

So we must think about what we’re leaving behind.

I know that none of these things change the world.

But thousands of these things are needed in order to do so.

This way.

You move the soil between the plants.

Just a little, like this.

With the shovel. That’s it. Hand me that.

The main thing is to press it from below and to grab it gently.

We don’t want the clod to break.

Now...

we put two...

between the plants.

Who wants to try?

Slowly from below.

Slowly, take your time.

We have to wait two months to eat it.

Those are zucchini.

We should teach the poor people how to breed flowers.

Because in this world everything grows.

And there will always be very rich people.

So if they produce flowers to sell to the rich

they will do well.

They take a bit of their wealth.

The poor, at least, here in America,

do not buy flowers, they have to buy food.

But when there’s money, people buy flowers.

Breaking down a wall is fast and easy.

But building a wall isn’t fast and easy.

But in order to know this

you have to age.

When you’re young

we see it’s easier to break,

building it again is much harder.

Yes.

Not having had children.

My father

was the third generation

of people that came from the Basque Country.

My mother was from Colonia.

She was the descendant of second generation Italians.

My parents met in Carmelo.

They bought a house over in Paso de Arena

and my father started working for the highway administration,

but he was a chain smoker

and he got sick and died when I was 7 years old.

That would be impossible,

but I’d live the way he does,

desperate to know who’s ripping me off.

Which, in my mind, must be his main concern in life.

No, that would never happen.

I’d never have that much, I would’ve spent it way before.

No.

Humanity needs

huge investments in favor of life.

We have to take huge amounts of salt water to the heart of the Sahara.

We have to deal with climate change and evaporate huge amounts of saltwater.

We have to create new rivers

with the melting ice of Northern Siberia.

We have to get drinking water to Mongolia,

to the dry parts of Asia.

We have to take advantage of the melting ice in Alaska

and create a river beneath the Rockies

that flows into the north of Mexico.

There are tons of causes that benefit all of humanity.

We have to make the Patagonia habitable, which is possible.

We could change the Atacama Desert’s climate,

plant trees in Atacama, the driest desert in the world.

It can be done, man could do this.

Instead of these old guys accumulating money,

making one or two million dollar cars.

It can be done, but...

But you see, it’s the same argument

in favor of life and not against life.

I belong to a generation

that believed that socialism was right around the corner.

My youth belongs to a world of illusion,

like that of so many others.

From heart to heart

The voice is heard:

If the homeland calls upon me,

here I am!

If the homeland calls upon me,

here I am!

As time went on we learned

that it’s much harder than we thought.

And we learned this:

For humanity to improve

the cultural issue is as or more important than the material.

You can change the material,

but unless culture changes, no real change occurs.

True change is inside one’s head.

Mr. President, good morning. How are you feeling

in these last minutes as president?

I feel the same as any other day.

You don’t understand, you can’t understand.

The most emotional day of my life

was the one I was relocated from Paso de los Toros to the prison

because that’s when I realize the dictatorship was coming to an end.

This is nothing compared to that.

-Thanks, guys. -How did you spend this morning?

Working. I turned on the tractor to do some mowing.

I was very nervous.

Thank you, Pepe. Thank you!

I think it needs gasoline.

Yes, I have noticed that.

And so, many who had socialist beliefs

emigrated towards capitalism.

They treat capitalism as a toy.

And there are others, like me,

who try to manage what we can within capitalism.

But the solution is not capitalism.

We have to find other things, other paths.

And embrace that search.

In Latin America there are no solutions, there is a search.

Thank you, comrade! Thank you.

-We love you! -Thank you, Pepe!

How did people come to the idea

that there is no yours and mine?

Because deep inside we are social animals,

and as such, we are socialists.

But history and time

have transformed us into capitalists,

into individualists,

because there’s a contradiction within us.

To live, we fight for life.

That’s a healthy selfishness

that nature provides to all living beings.

But at the same time, we are solidary,

because we have to build a society, because we are not Robinson Crusoe.

We can’t live in solitude.

In the long run, civilization and solidarity

are the greatest possible goods

that can help us live as a species.

And to overcome this contradiction

and to put solidarity above selfishness

has a tremendous cost.

What was the virtue of his speech?

It could reach a housewife,

a man from the street, a farmer,

and even an entrepreneur, an intellectual, a scientist.

He had a lot of versatility.

He used very simple language

to explain complex and deep matters.

Other peers didn’t share that quality.

That’s why he stood out like a spokesman,

at his simplest, a communicator of the ideas

which we always discussed as a group,

of our political organization.

So, I believe that it was due to those reasons,

communication skills,

simple language,

and commitment,

and living in accordance to his way of thinking

that he succeeded in the government,

and a government where things were done differently,

and a different kind of presidency.

Pepe, dear friend...

Dear people,

five fratricide years...

They went by so quickly, my dear people.

Dear people,

thank you.

Thank you for your hugs.

Thank you for your criticism.

Thank you for your affection and, above all,

thank you for your profound camaraderie

every time I felt alone

in the midst of my presidency.

If I had...

and have no doubt about it,

If I had two lives

I would spend both of them to support you in your struggles,

because it is the most magnificent way to love life,

that I’ve been able to find

during the almost 80 years of my life.

I’m not leaving,

I’m arriving.

I will leave with my last breath.

And wherever I am,

I’ll be there for you.

I’ll be with you,

because it is a superior way to live life.

Thank you, my dear people.

Oh, how I want to cry On this grey afternoon

While falling from the sky The rain whispers of you

The regret of knowing

That because of me, love I will never see you again

When I close my eyes You look just like yesterday

Trembling while I beg For your love once again

And today that voice returns

On this grey afternoon

You spit out the first sip.

It’s too strong.

He leaves if half-full.

You need to do like this.

It has to sound like it’s empty.

In prison we would sing:

Tell me about your sentence, tell me about your failure.

Tell me of the sorrow that left you wounded.

And talk to me plainly of that absent love.