The Stone Question Mark of the Barren Island ? The stone question mark ? theprisoners drubbing the line of people … drubbing … marching the mass of people March! In the line! Keep the distance! … All in the line! … The line … eviltounges evil cursing … drubbing … drubbing drubbing drubbing … The broken bones the drops of bursting blood TheBarren The Barren Island taken off to the barren skin The Barren Man On that stone land On Goljak The Barren Stone all human was removed from them the man straggling in his clothes theslough of a snakebehind him the shell of Man the yesterday of Man lies the splinters of human beings the mosaics of pain in VelikaŽica The Barren The Barren Island drains the bareness the garments out of use the rags cloaking the bareness no thurst no hunger no death no question no no shut up, stand, suffer the spite… against the suffer reeducation caprices sins the autumn comes with rain on the stone laces of the drywall the narrow tracks of everyday the boa constrictor swallows the devil from hell the swarm of hungry eyes the portretists of window frames time – space the Men the Slaves of the Line … drubbing drubbing drubbing … late at night taken Man the street the house the apartment the house she / he / it the fitting part of the Mosaic of blood The institution for reeducation The Barren The Barren Island The Museum of live people Abscess wounds Blains Bloody blisters Soaping with clay of the Barren Island Tito Tito Tito The Communist Party hails screams hatreds skin breaks blood gushes the brainwash the man disappears in man Along Tito „the son of Croats” ???… Tito’s Hawaii We are building the Barren Island The Barren Island is building us ̶Hands behind back, you rascals! ̶Head down! OZNA An Officer Name and surname!? _________________________ The destruction of personal name Loosing of soul, the scaffold for soul Brace brothers The treason of the party, of the people! They spue their womb The lines of people divide the gang Revised All being beaten All beat Warm rabbit (*passing through the cordon in which old detainees beat new ones) Adequately beaten Who beats stronger That one gets out faster They kill the body Kill Man within man They lose their personal name They become a gang Stopped breath Stopped time Sour smile Bloody cry Destructive hate Dying slowly Blackness Brightness Fellow brother twin-engine (*two times convicted) To immerse upside down Into gasoline barrels Filled with water Until being suffocated thread of consciousness Gulag break people Vultures steeped in blood Halflings of policy (*Žaklina Glibo) Getting over for the strongest ones Petrova hole fifteen with ten damn deep in the holeone barrack in the barrack „the Elite” temporality a record for the country distance of coastline Ghosts enslaved the roads Serpent tame plants anxiety suddenly appears Sunescapes A barell of evil The Island The Barren island Maslinje Senjak Tatinja Cape Sajalo Cape Blažna Small Barren (the colony of seagulls) Cape Markonj VrhGlava The bareness of the Barren Island The exracts from missing parts On the Barren Island They dig with bare hands Barrows They collect the ground Bright sun Trapped into the circle of sun The convicted with his hands on his back Over the sapling plant Making a shadow Day by day Days The plant In the shadow of man Plant Moving of bright sun The sun moves the man The tree grows towardsthe skies Knocking of stone Sticks of fingers Tick stone minutes Stone – hours Cricket orchestra The paths to the dungeon They make Armors of flash and blood The song of the socialist slaves Marshal’s Concentration Camp The freedom lives On the top of Velebit mountain Feeds with hope Thirsty eyes The spiritual asilium Freedom Slaves learn to live Framing the face Solitude down the racks of childhood memories flow to half a pint of water the whole day The Barren Island Stone questions marks of the Barren Island island stone question ? (Poemu Golootočki kameni upitnikna engleski prevela Ana Stelja) Nikola Šimić Tonin