It is really stimulating when a round-headed young man of the low crop and of the low military ranks stops one at the front door of the block where one has been living since 1978, and asks: ‘Do you live here?’ and ‘What is your name?’.
No wonder many people, with me among them, look suspicious to any new wave of political recruitment come fresh from the countryside, all burdened under the certainty that they were born and bred to introduce specified order in the environment which they find to be unspecified appropriate.
The political fraction of the socialism past is now retreating into entrenchment and leaving the business fraction of the transition period to finish the project, both sides fearing qualified and genetic competition, both sides fighting for the few comfortable places in the city, and both sides clearing the ground for the advent of the big predators.
The double thought that predators have by birth the right to look for prey, and that the patches of grass start on plots where moss and mould have taken root, is consolidating and stimulating to my decision to either enter the opposition between people taking the poll and people refraining from voting, or enter one of the many political oppositions where the candidates have at least once changed party belonging, or have at least once changed a military or a business career for a political one.
In line with the above, and to verify my living here, here is an old poem of mine:
At Sunset
Believe me, clouds small,
the smallest clouds,
can separate the sun from thee,
can give a lot, a lot of trouble,
you must believe, believe in me
Can ride the sun,
slip down slowly,
the sun can ride them free,
can turn their white
to crispy popcorn,
like demons gaping breathe
The sun has yes, a thousand faces,
three thousandfold or more,
and well-bred is,
the sky embraces,
but blocks to dreams the door
Believe me, dreams,
the shortest dreams,
if brave enough
to stay around,
can help you fly
the slightest breeze
to get rid
of the hideous clouds
V.P.T.
V.P.Toucheva 4.07.2009 Sofia, Bulgaria, EU
