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Martinson, Harry: Letter from a cattle-boat (Brev från en boskapsbåt in English)

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Brev från en boskapsbåt (Swedish)

Vi mötte Ogden Armours lustjakt
på höjderna av Balearerna.
Han är som bekant vår redare -
äger fem svinslakterier i Chicago
och åtta oxslakterier vid La Plata.
Han satte tuben till ögat och sade helt säkert:
- Å, fan! Det är ju min gamla boskapsbåt Chattanooga.

Vi sänkte flaggan och alla oxarna satte i alt böla
likt tusen hesa sirener över det andlösa havet.
Det lät nästan beklämmande,
och jag var böjd att kalla alitsammans: köttets lov.

Efter detta fick vi en svår storm,
och oxarna, vilka som bekant ha fyra magar,
ledo svårt av sjösjukan.



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Letter from a cattle-boat (English)

We met Ogden Armour's pleasure yacht
in the latitude of the Balearics.
He is, as is known, our shipowner -
owns five slaughterhouses for pigs in Chicago
and eight for oxen at La Plata.
He put his telescope to his eye and must have said:
Damn, isn't that my old cattle-boat Chattanooga!

We lowered the flag and the oxen took to bellowing
like a thousand hoarse sirens over the endless sea.
It was almost depressing: I felt like
branding everything as the law of the flesh.

After that a big storm hit us,
and the oxen, which, as is known, have four stomachs,
suffered dreadfully from seasickness.



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