This epilogue opens with a song, "Al Alba", or, "At sunrise". It is a 1975 song written by Spanish singer songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute. It quickly became a protest anthem for all those seeking political change at the end of Franco's 40 years long dictatorship. The song appeared some time after the last political executions of the Franco regime, 5 young political prisoners in their twenties, shot dead in the early hours of September 29, 1975. The composer wrote the song as a lover's lament, for the singer Rosa León, who, upon listening to it, commented - "This is not a love song, these are the words of someone who knows she will die in the morning". Aute responded that, although he had been commissioned to write a love song, he could not stop thinking of the young people who just lost their lives for their armed opposition to the dictatorship.

 

A last poem before death at sunrise, this seems fit for our last guest in The Radical Flu, which you are about to meet.