Poem
Ivan Slamnig
I AM A FOREIGNER
I am a Foreigner! Good evening.Are you a foreigner too?
It makes us a couple, isn’t it so? Don’t tell, because
they’ll chain up me and you.
It is sad to be a native
and it is boorish, like a frog,
croaking all night long
from a fuming bog!
© Translation: 2003, Sibila Petlevski
JA SAM STRANAC
JA SAM STRANAC
Ja sam stranac! Dobar vecerDa l’ si i ti stranac?
Dva smo, znaci? nemoj reci, jer
stavit ce nam lanac.
Tuzno li je biti domac
i prosto, poput zabe,
kreketat do u bozju ponoc
sred zadimljene grabe!
© 1951, Ivan Slamnig
From: Analecta, 1971
From: Analecta, 1971
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I AM A FOREIGNER
I am a Foreigner! Good evening.Are you a foreigner too?
It makes us a couple, isn’t it so? Don’t tell, because
they’ll chain up me and you.
It is sad to be a native
and it is boorish, like a frog,
croaking all night long
from a fuming bog!
© 2003, Sibila Petlevski
From: Analecta, 1971
From: Analecta, 1971
I AM A FOREIGNER
I am a Foreigner! Good evening.Are you a foreigner too?
It makes us a couple, isn’t it so? Don’t tell, because
they’ll chain up me and you.
It is sad to be a native
and it is boorish, like a frog,
croaking all night long
from a fuming bog!
© 2003, Sibila Petlevski
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