At the flea market I pick up a translation
of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
for 50 cents, Vihan hedelmät,
third hardback edition, and Borges'
novel collection for 2 euros, Soviet
classics one euro per book, east
and west and a better past for all,
if you didn't happen to live
under one of those dictatorships
Borges was apt to support,
remembering his grandfather,
cavalry colonel Borges, who,
riding to a minor war in 1874,
dressed brightly so that
the Paraguyans could see
him more easily, a conservative
patriot riding forth and
never riding back.
01.03.2025
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