"Here something became an orphan," "Someone's candle has faded," "Someone's joy has been stolen," "Someone sang," "And the song has faded away." "Good-bye Anatoli." "Peut-être toi, Maybe you don't want to know" "That you left me an unsurpassed cut." "A primitive cut, like those of the caves" "That remained always throughout the centuries, Ahmet," "And that will disappear only if the earth is absorbed by the universe, Mehmet" "Or like my body on earth, Halil ... Good-bye." "Later I stayed alone," "Surrounded by your sensations," "By your presence," "Without your precise face," "Without your slightly sweaty hands," "Without nothing." "Now I'm crying," "Like the bureaucrates every night," "With the betrayed Third International." "1973..." "Year of cholera and amnesty." "There are jobs for everyone." "It's planned even for you." "Don't forget we have reached the moon now." "There'll be new jobs." "Later..." "Later there'll be a guaranteed salary for everyone," "Reforms, or progress" "It concerns all nations," "And in some time slightly far away," "Which is nonetheless planned..." "Socialism." "The one with the human dimension, of course." "Or self-management, if you will." "And don't be a wise guy with suicide or revolution," "Because we'll create new jobs for that." "I offered myself to them, I stayed forever," "On the dried-out rivers of Calabria, With the round stones." "Work of the sun and the water." "Of the water and the sun." "Eyes." "Eyes of the land's people." "Floating rivers of an endless hinterland." "In the palestinian revolution, I am what I am." "Namely present, past," "And what is about to come." "Centuries or seconds, I'm swimming." "I'm roaming the seas," "I'm flying." "I'm walking on earth," "I'm reaching." "Ali, Abouleila, Messir." "In our own certitude of the great encounter," "The Dead do not exist." "Because each one is free, to become what he wants," "Bird, leaf, tear, wind," "Fog, love, star, God, through our innermost relation."