luni, 27 august 2012

Angela Marinescu, Rezistențe arse


Burnt Resistors


where we live,
writers have become resistant to writing,
have made their resistance to writing their profession.
writing no longer has any power over them
and, so, they’ve become frightening wrecks, anarchists,
amoral, atheists, lewd histrionics, violent and obsessed.
instead of supporting them, writing weighs them down,
like a berg of ice,
like a tired, sick whale.
in order to finish once and for all with this state of things,
methods should be invented for exterminating writers,
quick, rudimentary, exact,
let’s say, a kafkan ultra machine
to destroy their fingers,
their hands or even the cold bite of writing,
the uterus invoked with tenderness
so they’d get to see what it means
to spend useless cold
night shifts
on an endless corridor.


Translated from the Romanian by
Stephen Watts & Claudiu Komartin


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