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Virolainen, Merja: You put out my heart, like a cigarette, in the trash (Stumppasit roskikseen sydämeni in English)

Portre of Virolainen, Merja

Stumppasit roskikseen sydämeni (Finnish)

Stumppasit roskikseen sydämeni.

Se jäi kytemään:

veto soi metron liukuportaissa,

savukobra kiemurtelee pesästään

ja Kali herää, tanssii

temppelissä liekkikehän keskellä.

Kurvin pyhiinvaeltajat

lipuvat Hämistä ruuhissaan,

tungeksivat rantaportailla,

kastautuvat rovion väreilyyn.

Miten iloisesti roskis palaa,

miten roihu lämmittää

kun tuhka leijaa, hajoaa.

Miten joku valaisee

kuin juhlan arkiaamun hämärän.



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You put out my heart, like a cigarette, in the trash (English)

You put out my heart, like a cigarette,

in the trash. It smoldered:

hum of the air in the metro escalator,

a smoke cobra uncoils from its nest

and Kali wakes up, dances in the temple

in a circle of flames.

The pilgrims by Sörnäinen station

glide down the street in their punts,

crowd the steps by the shore,

immerse themselves

in the flickering trash fire.

How happily the garbage burns,

how the flames warm you

when the ashes float up, disperse.

How you light up, festively,

a working day’s grey dawn.



Uploaded byP. T.
Source of the quotationhttp://www.electricverses.net

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