Poem
Ilya Kaminsky
WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR
WE WAREN GELUKKIG TIJDENS DE OORLOG
En toen ze de huizen van andere mensen bombardeerden kwamen wein opstand
maar niet genoeg, we protesteerden maar niet
genoeg. Ik lag
in mijn bed, rond mijn bed stortte Amerika
in: onzichtbaar huis na onzichtbaar huis na onzichtbaar huis.
Ik zette een stoel buiten en keek naar de zon.
In de zesde maand
van een rampzalig regime in het huis van geld
in de straat van geld in de stad van geld in het land van geld,
ons grootse land van geld, waren we (vergeef ons)
gelukkig tijdens de oorlog.
© Vertaling: 2013, Menno Wigman
WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR
And when they bombed other people’s houses, weprotested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war.
© 2013, Ilya Kaminsky
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WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR
And when they bombed other people’s houses, weprotested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war.
WE LIVED HAPPILY DURING THE WAR
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