February 14th, 2009 posted by Bender Rodríguez
Anastasia Baburova, a Russian journalist, aged 25, shot and killed on January 19th, 2009, together with human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov.
by Anastasia Baburova
Wake up in the morning
Stretch your arms towards the sun
Say something in Chinese
And go to Paris…
Every minute
Somewhere in the world
There is morning
Somewhere
People stretch their arms towards the sun
They speak new languages
Fly from Cairo to Warsaw
They smile and drink coffee together
"Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first."
Ambrose Bierce