:: POEM AND PICTURE ::

:: 59 :: Jannis Poptrandov :: Takuya Kurihara

 

I TAKE AN OATH ON EVERYTHING

:: DEUTSCH :: МАКЕДОНСКИ ::

 

Stash away 555 million tons

of paint, for later,

best

brilliant white.

Supply more machine guns,

           more grenades,

           more rocket launchers,

           more tanks.

Be firmly convinced

that the others will

be impressed by it.

Order 11 million liters of perfume

from China,

No,

rather 77 million,

Better safe than sorry,

so you will be able, the smell

of the piles of corpses to…

Well, you know.

Explain the people,

who find negotiation

not that bad

for

                    deluded lunatics,

                    deranged,

                    completely nuts,

and

deprive them of the right to vote,

                        their homes,

                        their shoes and pants.

Listen to Freude schöner Götterfunken

at full volume,

and drown out

the crying of the mothers

on both sides.

 

English Translation by Elizabeta Lindner

 

::Takuya Kurihara :: Untitled