I desire no love and no honor:
They intoxicate — no falling away!
I don't even desire an apple
Tempting — from hawker's tray..
Something drags behind me like chain,
Soon the thunder will sound in the sky...
How I desire —
Oh how I desire —
Very quietly simply to die!
Не хочу ни любви, ни почестей:
— Опьянительны. — Не падка!
Даже яблочка мне не хочется
— Соблазнительного — с лотка…
Что-то цепью за мной волочится,
Скоро громом начнёт греметь.
— Как мне хочется,
Как мне хочется —
Потихонечку умереть!
«The sign says hospital — a blue haze wraps it now. / The veterinary goes over a cow. The hand painted with manganese / Feels first the udders, then the strong butt of / The tail, and soon the cow / Beneath the bull will stretch and howl with love. / They clear the nuptial circle with t...»
«Fire, the rope, the bullet and the ax, / Like servants bowed and followed where we went, / And in each drop that fell a deluge slept, / Pebbles grew into mountains where they lay, / And in a small twig trodden underfoot / Whole forests rustled, their black arms outspread. At table falseho...»
«Our rooms are turned to rolling wagons / With wheels that creak on roads of air; / And down below, the moony water / Is playing gently with green hair. We travel over crystal bridges, / Across the earth, across the sky. / Its red cheek pressed against our windows, / The sun sings out as...»
«We have unlearned how to give alms, forgotten / How to breathe the salt air above the sea, / And how to meet the dawn, and in the market / Buy golden lemons for two coins or three. / Ships call on us only by chance, and freight trains / Bring cargoes out of habit, that is all; / Just cou...»