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386 Wladyslaw Chtopicki Rurka ( Little Pipe; steel plant director) but he fails to win her affection due to his slimy manners: Mariolka has a mini skirt Szmaciak excitedly secretes saliva, so greatly it arouses him the curvy bust, the shorty outfit now with a fast, guite rural movement, he catches her best female part “Fuck off with your hands, old pig” Szmaciak’s own wife, Helka, is highly pretentious, and also a resentful antiSemite. At a drunken party with the Rurkas, she gets into a fight with Rurka’s wife over the honesty and beauty of their daughters (Fig. 2): Terrible screams, fingers in hair In relentless struggle they are panting Got separated with greatest effort Szmaciak pulls Helka to the exit She drags her resistant legs And shouts: Bitch! Bitch! He serves her a hefty beating To force her home. He tries to sleep and in the bed her poisoned whisper he can hear: Rurkowa is a dirty Jewess her daughter is an all out whore. During martial law (1981-1983), the actual event was introduced into Szpotariski’s later poems (1983). Szmaciak becomes an officer and tries to defeat the striking workers in the Pcim factory, who have turned it into a “fortress”. While trying to seize the factory, he slips in the mud and falls through a large opening in the factory wall and, as a result, ends up ina pile of rubbish and slime—a symbolic event (Figs 5 and 6). One of the most characteristic scenes in the poems is a terrible dream of Comrade Szmaciak in which he looks into a mirror and sees a pig snout in it (Fig. 7). This cannot be, he rubs his eyes, Thinking that it must still be the hangover Then drives his nails into his body. But nothing changes! The snout’s still there! Looks at it critically in the mirror—
