. [cuplikan] Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror ~ Peter Dale Scott II.iv I am writing this poem about the 1965 massacre of Indonesians by Indonesians which in an article ten years later I could not publish except in Nottingham England with a friend Malcolm Caldwell who has since himself been murdered no one will say by whom but I will guess seeing as this is precisely poetry the CIAs and now Pekings Cambodian assassins the Khmer Serai In that article I estimated a half-million or more killed in this period it took Noam in a book suppressed by its first publisher to quote Admiral Sudomo of the Indonesian junta more than 500,000 and now Amnesty International many more than one million so much for my balanced prose But none of us experienced that pervasive smell of death those impassable rivers clogged with corpses Robert Lowell is that why even you a pacifist had so little to say about it? Or you gentle reader let us examine carefully the good reasons you and I dont enjoy reading this Like the time in the steep Engadine we saw the silent avalanche fall away from the mountain hair and eyebrows the first to feel the murmurations of the spreading killer wind
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