by Gherasim Luca
\ntranslated from Romanian by \u015etefan Bolea<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong> so I can pay attention to the things around me<\/p>\n my fingers shivering like poplars, short as bullets<\/p>\n squeezed firmly the woman’s white neck<\/p>\n like ancient poets were squeezing in their usual love fits for nature<\/p>\n flowers \u2013 sheep \u2013\u00a0 field and stars<\/p>\n the poets of today, poets with fingers shivering like poplars and short as<\/p>\n bullets<\/p>\n have each at home a woman’s white neck that must be strangled<\/p>\n the clearness with which we’ll perceive the things around us afterwards is so necessary<\/p>\n and their purple tongue, what a foolish spectacle<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And now that we are free our stroll along the streets becomes important in a way we can tell:<\/p>\n women are more polished and more provoking today<\/p>\n the gents are more smiling<\/p>\n and our pockets usually loaded with candies and scraps of paper contain stones of all sizes<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the same time with us other men began walking on the great boulevards of the city<\/p>\n they have white fingers, fat like slices of bacon, they keep the fingers in their pockets<\/p>\n stuffed with the last picture of their girlfriends and a snotty handkerchief.<\/p>\n The poets from today, the poets with shivering like poplars fingers, short as<\/p>\n bullets<\/p>\n the poets with pockets containing stones of all sizes<\/p>\n must know that the single difficulty is the smashing of the first window of the great boulevards<\/p>\n because all the other windows will smash by themselves<\/p>\n just as it is enough to extinguish the first star and all the others will be themselves extinguished<\/p>\n I apologize for the star comparison, poets,<\/p>\n it’s only a memory from the old times<\/p>\n when I was ecstatic about blooming trees and I used to faint at every sunrise.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The poets from today, the poets with fingers shivering like poplars and short as<\/p>\n bullets<\/p>\n may throw their stones at the star comparison<\/p>\n it will probably be the first window smashed<\/p>\n then all the other windows will smash by themselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Gherasim Luca translated from Romanian by \u015etefan Bolea \u00a0 I am free so I can pay attention to the things around me my fingers shivering like poplars, short as bullets squeezed firmly the woman’s white neck like ancient poets were squeezing in their usual love fits for nature flowers \u2013 sheep \u2013\u00a0 field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044,77],"tags":[1166,1123,716,39,312],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-41","category-english","tag-egophobia-41","tag-english","tag-gherasim-luca","tag-stefan-bolea","tag-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-2Ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10260,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions\/10260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI am free<\/p>\n