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Janík, Pavol: Nocturne for Diabetes (Nokturno pre diabetes in English)

Portre of Janík, Pavol

Nokturno pre diabetes (Slovak)

Na oblohe sa zjavujú
diakritické znamenia
nesmrteľného Dia.
Križujú sa v nás
dialógy diaboliek.

Ó, božská Diana,
ochraňuj naše diagnózy,
repné kampane a ropné polia.

Zachovaj v nás to diapozitívne
a učiň nás diametrálnymi.
Diagramy smútku
a diamantové diadémy
kladieme k tvojim diagonálam.
Ach, dialektika dialekvárov.
Do diárov si zapisujeme
našu poslednú hodinu
a termín našej posmrtnej diaspóry.
Aby sme nezabudli zomrieť,
a naposledy sa dôkladne rozptýliť.



Uploaded byRépás Norbert
PublisherAtrakt, Bratislava 1991
Source of the quotationHurá, horí!, ISBN 80-85543-00-1
Bookpage (from–to)49-49
Publication date

Nocturne for Diabetes (English)

Diacritical signs
of immortal Dio
appear in the sky.
Dialogues of the diabolic
intersect within us.

Oh divine Diana
preserve our diagnosis,
sugar-beet campaigns and oil fields.

Save within us the diapositive
and make us diametrical.
Diagrams of sorrow
and diamond diadems
we place at your diagonals.
Oh dialectics of dia-marmalades.
Into our diaries we write
our last hour
and the deadline of our posthumous diasporas.
Just so that we don’t forget to die
and for the last time decorously deny ourselves nothing.



Uploaded byRépás Norbert
PublisherThe Penniless Press, United Kingdom 2014
Source of the quotationA Dictionary of Foreign Dreams
Publication date

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