DISSATISFACTION

Who nourished you? Tell me…
When you were cold and starving!
Who nourished you? Tell me…
With white breadcrumbs and buckwheat!
Now, bird, you steal from me
My raspberries, my grapes…
Who nourished you? Tell me
In the winter when you were starving?

October 1963.

Translated by Lenora Timm

This poem in breton

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