Ignor 35

 Dejan had ended his 14 day quarantine 

 Miha delivered his latest thoughts on the current situation 

 people sat and listened in silence

to people reading poetry from notebooks

and mobiles

people creating some noise 

and once again reading, this time from books

and pieces of paper

and people sampling poetry 

and people reading some more

and a bit more as the night fell

ending with poetry in a Scandinavian language 

and some poetry set to music. 

This performance

 Made it all come back... 

 They performance is about six unaccompanied refugee children that they tried to house somewhere in Slovenia and make it possible for them to live a 'normal' life (however close to normal a life can be of a child that has found himself in a different country, without his or her parents, where he/she doesn't know anybody, not a word of the language, and where people clearly despise him/her just because he/she wasn't born in that country), you know, like go to school and stuff...

Of course, when the Slovene parents heard about this they were outraged and terrified that these six refugee children would boil their children or even worse, eat them alive;

  so they started writing petitions, making it impossible for them to live anywhere worth living as they were way to dangerous for this small little country.

and it all culminated in a tractor and pitchfork rally in which people screamed and shouted that they don't want no foreigners in this land, that this land is for them and them only, that other people don't deserve to live...

Soon after that I sat in my trusty old Volvo and drove a thousand miles away, on an exploratory trip to London, which went horribly wrong (as things in life do, but that's another story)...