Class Hatred Is Growing
Each day from morning till night
from night till morning
class hatred throughout the world is growing.
It's growing a hundred megajoules per second
ten spans per hectare, growing growing.
We never felt the earth so close to us, fallow and deserted
never was our throat parched by so much violence
never our days had so few feet to run with
never, never
it is carnivorous the nature of our class, voracious
its blows are calculated and its pain mortal
as it goes on burying its dead by memory.
Each day class hatred is growing
it piles in the produce market
it piles in construction sites
its piles in strawberry fields
it piles in telephone centers
it piles in office corridors
and in assembly lines
it piles up on my fingertips.
There's never been so much class hatred
in the breasts of proletarians
in their heartbeat and commotion
in their spelling and their syntax.
They wake up, brush their teeth
are dressed, go to work
and class hatred is always growing
filling with bones their words
filling with logic their insanity
filling with gravel their shoes
it's burning their lungs
it overflows out of their pockets
they don't know where to put it anymore.
Class hatred is growing
in both the short and median air waves
in analog and digital signals
in electric circuits.
When it passes through a resistor
the temperature isincreased
the electric loads are increased
the density of the suppression force is increased
on the condition that the system
is not subject to any reverse alteration.
Class hatred is always analogous
to the square of the devaluation of labor
and analogous to the intensity of exploitation.
Class hatred is a mathematical ratio
connecting the law of lavue
with the second law of thermodynamics
and my own skeletomuscular disorders.
Class hatred is an investment risk
class hatred doesn't yield a guaranteed dividend
it's capital's exposure to the denial of labor
it's a sure way to lose your money.
Class hatred is a case of lesser violence
a danger relative to industrial disasters
with malfunctions, sabotage and wild strikes.
Don't expose yourselves to class hatred
if you don't grasp the nature and the extent of risk
the economic damages you'll very likely incur.
Class hatred is growing in all continents
it's growing in all its rags and all its weapons
its growing in all languages and all dialects.
As it grows the stones blossom in the hands
the heart beats on the anvil
the horses gallop in the breast
and inside me,
World Poetry, 2025 ah comrades, inside me
it overflows the rivers pouring in my body.
translated by Angelos Sakkis
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Jazra Khaleed
The Light That Burns Us
World Poetry, 2025
