Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prisonby Nazim Hikmet Translated by Mutlu Konuk and Randy Blasing If instead of being hanged by the neck            you’re thrown inside            for not giving up hopein the world, your country, and people,            if you do ten or fifteen years            apart from the time you have left,you won’t say,                        “Better I had swung from the end of a rope                                                      like a flag”—you’ll put your foot down and live.It may not be a pleasure exactly,but it’s your solemn duty            to live one more day                  to spite the enemy.Part of you may live alone inside,                        like a stone at the bottom of a…Read More