Bread would have been enough for everyone.
But crows started haunting the field, mice the barn,
thieves the bakery, bandits the country.

They didn't leave as they came;
some left their dogs, some their lice.
And some left their bastards!...
Otherwise all these dishonorable men
Could not have been one of us!

Tevfik, Neyzen: Ekmek Herkese Yetecekti (trans. Nazli Tümerdem) (1930)

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    Nicolás Egon Wittig
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