Poem
Alexis de Roode
Sunday morning
For one whole empty daythe car stands and waits behind the house.
Tomorrow at this time I have to go to the office.
The car is ready.
It waits for me.
My girlfriend forbids me to think of tomorrow.
Today you are free.
This freedom, this whole day of freedom
is granted me in my contract.
I could go and sit in my car for a moment.
On the cool leather. And turn on the radio.
To feel what it is like to drive to my work,
without driving to my work.
I carry out my plan.
This is surely the freedom I have a right to.
This is freedom.
I caress the steering wheel, turn the window down.
Wait an hour.
© Translation: 2018, Donald Garder
Zondagochtend
Zondagochtend
De hele lege dagstaat de auto achter het huis te wachten.
Morgen moet ik naar kantoor om deze tijd.
De auto staat klaar.
Hij wacht op mij.
Mijn vriendin verbiedt mij aan morgen te denken.
Vandaag ben je vrij.
Deze vrijheid, deze hele dag van vrijheid
is mij contractueel toegekend.
Ik zou heel even in de auto kunnen gaan zitten.
Op het koele leer. En de radio aanzetten.
Om te voelen hoe het is naar mijn werk te rijden,
zonder dat ik naar mijn werk rijd.
Ik voer mijn plan uit.
Dit is nochtans de vrijheid waar ik recht op heb.
Dit is vrijheid.
Ik streel het stuur, draai het raampje open.
Wacht een uur.
© 2017, Alexis de Roode
From: Een steen openvouwen
Publisher: Uitgeverij Podium, Amsterdam
From: Een steen openvouwen
Publisher: Uitgeverij Podium, Amsterdam
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Sunday morning
For one whole empty daythe car stands and waits behind the house.
Tomorrow at this time I have to go to the office.
The car is ready.
It waits for me.
My girlfriend forbids me to think of tomorrow.
Today you are free.
This freedom, this whole day of freedom
is granted me in my contract.
I could go and sit in my car for a moment.
On the cool leather. And turn on the radio.
To feel what it is like to drive to my work,
without driving to my work.
I carry out my plan.
This is surely the freedom I have a right to.
This is freedom.
I caress the steering wheel, turn the window down.
Wait an hour.
© 2018, Donald Garder
From: Een steen openvouwen
From: Een steen openvouwen
Sunday morning
For one whole empty daythe car stands and waits behind the house.
Tomorrow at this time I have to go to the office.
The car is ready.
It waits for me.
My girlfriend forbids me to think of tomorrow.
Today you are free.
This freedom, this whole day of freedom
is granted me in my contract.
I could go and sit in my car for a moment.
On the cool leather. And turn on the radio.
To feel what it is like to drive to my work,
without driving to my work.
I carry out my plan.
This is surely the freedom I have a right to.
This is freedom.
I caress the steering wheel, turn the window down.
Wait an hour.
© 2018, Donald Garder
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