Federico García Lorca
Solidaridad screamed out from posters and stamps
that carried snapshots of the dead poet’s face.
We still haven’t found his body.
He said we never would.
They tortured him first,
taunted him for being homosexual:
trussed him up, laid him face down,
then shot him, for a joke, in the offending area.
It didn’t take him long to die.
When he did,
his body was dumped in some way out ossuary.
But first they carved the bullets out of his corpse,
three from around the anal tract,
keeping them as souvenirs.
Later that night, Fascists, drunk,
laughed uproariously in their favorite bars.
They dropped the bullets into their wine
and drank to the re-establishment of law and order.
Next day his friends were put to death.
Waverers were soon convinced by bullets
lodged at the base of another’s skull …
fine arguments …
rogermoorepoet 
Poor Lorca, awful story, H. G Wells was head on the international writers association put in petitions for information and was stonewalled
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Everyone was stonewalled. Gibson did some wonderful research to get close to the truth. A very tragic tale of multiple betrayals.
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Poor lorca.fascists was very cruel.they or other,who know, had shooted him bt his creative works r alive still now.all true person has to face such tragedy.how much sad thing.
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He is indeed a great writer and I love his poetry and his plays. The House of Bernarda Alba is spectacular.
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Yeah.i have read about lorca on google.what was he extra-intteliget poet n having rebelious nature.was his body not fond -according his family members.
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*founded.
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The atrocities of thinking we are right and everyone else is wrong!! So Sad!
When will we every learn!??
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Not just that we are right, but that everybody else must perish for their lack of understanding. The Spanish Civil War was brutal, as are most civil and religious wars. I guess it comes from the clash of ideas, they are easy to put down but so hard to fight. As Miguel de Unamuno said when the Senate at the University of Salamanca was invaded by the local Fascists: “Vencerán pero no convencerán / you will conquer, but you won’t convince.”
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The pen is mightier than the sword, only in a civilized society. Elsewhere, fear rules.
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It was certainly exploited in Spain, by both sides, during the Civil War. A terrifying time, by all accounts, that left deep and enduring scars of a very painful nature. I was astonished at how the bitterness was still being felt, even in 2008, the last time I was there.
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What a tragic tale. Very moving, Roger.
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He wrote a poem in Poet in New York in which he said “They’ll never find my body” … and they still haven’t. It is indeed a very sad tale.
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Wow, eerily prophetic. I’ll have to read about this a little more.
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Ian Gibson’s biography of Lorca offers a very good account of his last days.
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Thank you, I will put that on my ‘to read’ list. Which is rather extensive, I’m afraid! Not enough hours in the day. Or brain cells to absorb it all… 😀
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