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Chmel, Karol: A More Fruitful Tree (Ovocnejší strom in English)

Portre of Chmel, Karol

Ovocnejší strom (Slovak)

(M. Reiselovi)

zvon samá fráza

boží jazyk lepkavie
hviezdy samý cukor
cukor
mravný zákon vo mne

hodina pravdy s hudbou pre hluchých

ktosi vracia
vyklonený z okna
šťastne z neho vypadne
dopočúva kozmogóniu

je jasno
je nedeľa
všetko v poriadku

chorí sa chystajú na návštevy
mŕtvi sa maľujú za zrkadlom


PublisherOvocnejší strom

A More Fruitful Tree (English)

(for M. Reisel)

the bell all cliché

God's tongue gets sticky
the stars all sugar
sugar
the moral code inside me

the hour of truth with the music for the deaf

somebody vomits
leaning from the window
falling luckily from it
he listens to cosmogony

it's bright
it's Sunday
everything's fine

the sick prepare for visits
the dead put on make-up behind the mirror


Source of the quotation100 Years of Slovak Literature, Vilenica

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