http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/12/09/feature-05
Link to poem; HTTP://WWW.POETRYINTERNATIONAL.ORG/PIW_CMS/CMS/CMS_MODULE/INDEX.PHP?OBJ_ID=2674
Right now at this very moment the beautiful country known as Greece is going through an economic crisis, "Stocks in Europe lost gains ahead of the meeting on worries over delays to the bailout deal. In Athens, the main share index was down 5 percent." The Government is working on a Greek bail-out and a healthy way of budget cutting. Now Why is budget- cutting so important? "Without it, the country would not be eligible for a euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout from other countries in Europe and the International Monetary Fund. Greece needs the money ahead of a euro14.5 billion ($19.2 billion) bond deadline on March 20 and to strike a vital debt-relief deal with bond investors." And then if Greece begins to miss payments then a dominos effect could occur and Greece could spin off into great debt. With such great debt Greece will not be able to feed its people and they will starve. And in the end starvation leads to disease or death. Overall Greece is in a tough time and in tough times "Greek poets have used the peculiar power of a precise language to stir souls, plumb the depths of humanity, and stoke resistance against invaders and occupiers." One poem that has emerged is Words Again by Patrikios, a greek poet.
WORDS AGAIN
Words in their thousands pour out of dictionaries
as soon as you open them
like ants, black, red, white,
when you step on an ant-hill.
How can you find, how can you choose
amid the conflation of words
the only one that fits,
how can you escape from the others
that stick to your body in swarms
struggling to survive.
Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late.
As long as I’m able
to combine even two words
I exist.
as soon as you open them
like ants, black, red, white,
when you step on an ant-hill.
How can you find, how can you choose
amid the conflation of words
the only one that fits,
how can you escape from the others
that stick to your body in swarms
struggling to survive.
Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late.
As long as I’m able
to combine even two words
I exist.
This poem is about speaking up and not waiting to speak until i is too late,
"Yet the unspoken words beneath the tongue
the only ones that don’t emerge from your mouth
they too gnaw from within
leaving shrivelled corpses
of people who tried to speak
when it was too late."
Greece is going through tough times and instead of ignoring that fact the Greek have decided to take care of the problem.
That is different from us in he sense that Americans just like to print money to solve all of our economic problems, but hey I mean if the Great Depression doesn't mean anything to you then sure hyperinflation is out of question- but news flash, IT DID HAPPEN! And hyper inflation is something that we have to worry about.
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