“Within him, there's awful darkness, in the darkness a small boy.”

— Wisława Szymborska

"A Film from the Sixties"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
Context: Within him, there's awful darkness, in the darkness a small boy. God of humor, do something about him, OK?
God of humor, do something about him today.

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Polish writer 1923–2012

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