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Picasso titled this work The poet, but not many people are aware that he also wrote quite a bit of poetry. Here is a passage from The Dream and Lie of Franco, which was written the same year he did Guernica.

cries of children cries of women cries of birds cries of flowers cries of wood and stone cries of bricks cries of furniture of beds of chairs of curtains of casseroles of cats and papers cries of smells that claw themselves of smoke that gnaws the neck of cries that boil in cauldron and the rain of birds that floods the sea that eats into the bone and breaks the teeth biting the cotton that the sun wipes on its plate that bourse and bank hide in the footprint left imbedded in the rock.