TRC Final Report

Volume 6

Section 4

Chapter 1

Subsection 13

Poem by Ariel Dorfman^{2 0}

And every year September 19th

(soon it will be four years, can so many years have gone by?)

I will have to ask her again

If there is any news

If they have heard anything

And she will say no, thank you very much,

I appreciate your concern ,

But her eyes will keep saying

Wordlessly

What they said the first time

(soon it will be three years –

how is it possible?)

no, thank you very much,

I appreciate your concern,

But I am not a widow

So stay away from me,

D o n ’t ask me for anything,

I won’t marry you,

I am not a widow,

I am not a widow,

Yet