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one
takes whichever dream
at
random / to those
who
are wide awake we recommend to select the one
out
of whose arms they have just escaped / one selects
a
character out of it / one
who
is fearful by nature
or
someone who has fallen out of line / anyway someone
who suspects nothing whatsoever
that
there is anything the matter with him / on behalf of
and
on account of his deeds
one
then proceeds to take the whole dream to task
poking
fun at it
cross
examining it
applying
pressure on it
mixing
it thoroughly with all of one's failures
decorating
it with a little bit of regret
while
putting up some show of desperation
seasoning
it to taste and in keeping with one's expertise and serving it
according
to circumstances
in
bedroom slippers or in hobnailed boots
if
the result is the one envisaged the whole procedure is followed through all over
again
if
not the whole procedure is followed through all over again
after
some time
everybody
yourself included
will
come to believe
that
this is it
this
was
this
will be
anyway
the facts have long been wolfed down
as
royalties for this have melted into thin air
Ludwigsburg, January
2002
From the
volume
Ochiul
Boului (The Eye of the Ox), Marineasa Publishers,
Timisoara, 2002
Translated
from the Rumanian by Heathrow O'Hare
the singers
did not sing
the
teachers did not preach
the
students did not do their homework
the writers
did not write
the artists
did not paint
the
military did not militate
the
activists did not take action
the zealots
did not try hard enough
the
slothful did not idle their time away
the
terrorists did not spread terror
the others
(how
should one
call them?)
not finding
something outstanding to do
hit
themselves hard with a truncheon across their skulls
or maybe
they handcuffed themselves and got into
the police
vans whoever
could not
find room in there caught a bullet
in the leg
or in the chest or in the head it did not matter where
just for
the sake
of
providing sensational stuff
to whomever
may ask
Cannes, June 1998
From the
volume Putere Absoluta (Absolute Power), Marineasa Publishers, Timisoara, 1999
Translated
from the Romanian by HEATHROW
O'HARE
at
the end of each day the game looks more interesting
yesterday
I made myself a shirt out of the adhesive wallpaper in the guest room
through
the wound in one wall I'm peering inside the night's belly
the
only sight granted to me is a stone table on which a deathlike figure
big
with child lies waiting for the obstetrician's decree
here's
a handsome stalwart fellow the latter mumbles
while
carefully examining the blunt instrument which the yet unborn
has
been aiming at the stethoscope's
hardened
auscultation cup
Ludwigsburg, March
2001
From
the volume Ochiul
Boului (The
Eye of the Ox),
Marineasa Publishers, Timisoara, 2002
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