I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects by Pablo Neruda

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Love, goodbye until tomorrow, kisses!

My heart, you will have to hold fast to this duty because I now declare this trial open.

The question at hand is to be or not to be:

If we let the guilty party live the people will continue to suffer, and this criminal of a President will go on robbing Chile of the copper in her customs houses and disemboweling the innocent in Vietnam.

We can't wait a week nor even a single day longer since it is by means of his inhuman atrocities that we trap this beetle; and it is a matter of pride for all the people who have borne the dagger of the news like a hard and lasting instrument announcing justice on earth- for this reason, comrade, the tribunal of blood that begins now was looking for you; and although the harsh judge be a poet the people gave me a rose so that with my true verse

I can punish the powerful rage of the immense executioner, commanded by money his mistress to burn down garden and gardener in remote and golden lands.

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