A Poem for Putin
Marie: President Zelensky sent this challenge to Vladimir Putin “after Russian troops, in retreat, struck Ukrainian power plants.” Copied from the Sydney Morning Herald & slightly abridged & punctuated. Rachel Maddow read Zelensky's message to Putin, and it struck me as poetic. Maddow said Zelensky sent it with video of a Ukraine power plant engulfed in flames. I'm not sure in what language the message went to Zelensky, but this tweet, which reproduces part of the message, indicates it has been published in English.
By Volodymyr Zelensky
Do you still think you can intimidate, break us?
Did you really not understand anything?
Didn’t you understand who we are?
What we stand for?
What we are talking about?
Read my lips:
Without gas or without you? Without you.
Without light or without you? Without you.
Without water or without you? Without you.
Without food or without you? Without you.
Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst,
For us are not as scary and deadly
As your ‘friendship and brotherhood.’
History will put everything in its place.
And we will exist with gas, lights, water and food,
And WITHOUT you!
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