25818 - At the Slaughter of Psara

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

At the Slaughter of Psara
you can in actual fact see
what barbarism is all about
since when the Ottomans
invaded
the island
and destroyed
everything
in order to take revenge
for the unyielding resistance
of the Greeks
they cut off
their noses
and ears
and then
placed then
in salt
sending them
all over
to Constantinople
for the pleasure
of the Sultan
and if you’ve forgotten it
we haven’t!