“Whose side are you on?" "I don't know."
"This is a war, you've got to choose." "I don't know."
"Does your village still exist?" "I don't know."
"Are those your children?”

—  Wisława Szymborska

"Yes."
"Vietnam"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)

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