Puisi -puisi Si Bung

1

Si Bung Crying

Let's open your history books
with a ruler and pen
suppress word
Duhai kesuma
should learn to spell
Wherever was your age adults
Smiling Si Bung
view
the nation's children
Betanyalah! Why
I choose sunglasses
so I do not see
so you do not see
There
Si Bung open glasses
tears petrified in a handkerchief
Red and white
Why can not my sleep soundly
Duhai kesuma
Cover me with your white red.

Indramayu, March 21, 2001, Rg. Nice Warsono

2

I'm Watching

Images struggle
Of the book you wrote
From the photos that you collect
And
fi
lm which you rotate
Only sekuku
ireng
suffering
I see thousands of heads in tears
I saw blood clot in frozen corpses
I watched the wrenching pain suffered
Misery
Hungry
Fright
Pain
I witnessed.

Rg Good Warsono, 1996

3

Do not Visit Nisanku

You pray for me, but you
nisanku stone littering with cigarette ash
moisten with buffalo dung
and stomp with your feet peaceful bumiku
unclean.
While swiftlet in respecting the South Coast
and forest monkeys away felt she did not belong
bumiku peace
Though I do not forbid
Sementra beggars, the homeless, and farmers
send prayers sincerely
without prayers engineered
That only depraved officials shut us
Do you visit nisanku
If you do not want to see
Because I actually
Already not there
When people like you come in my place.

Rg Good Warson, 1993