Poem
Rogi Wieg
THE LETTERS
What goes beyond understanding, goes over one’s hat,
a light, woolly cloud of information and so forth.
I have the status of an expensive, strange,
magnificent rose, smelling of shit. Should
I therefore go on with creating? To do nothing
is not a future, collecting sunshine, chasing the dresses off women
and slowly growing older, narrower as the shinbone
of a dead toadstool. I must carry the letters.
Everything I have ever, or never, made is a box for blocks
with crooked blocks. It goes over my hats
why I, creator of flowers, hand over to you
a rotten rose. Oh beautiful, pleasant life,
I’ve produced refined, nuanced horror.
What goes beneath my understanding is what I’ve written.
© Translation: 2007, Michele Hutchison
Produced for the 2007 Chinese Whispers Project during the Poetry International festival
DE LETTERS
DE LETTERS
Wat het verstand te boven gaat, gaat boven de hoed,
licht wollige wolk van informatie, enzovoort.
Mijn status is die van een dure, ongehoord
schitterende, naar stront ruikende roos. Moet
ik daarom verdergaan met scheppen?
Niets doen is geentoekomst, zonneschijn innen, vrouwen de rok opjagen,
en langzaam ouder worden, smaller als het scheenbeen
van een dode paddestoel. Ik moet de letters dragen.
Alles wat ik ooit, of nooit, maakte is een blokkendoos
met scheve blokken. Het gaat mijn hoeden te boven
waarom ik, schepper van de bloem, een stinkende roos
aan u overhandig. O schoon, gemoedelijk leven,
ik heb verfijnde, genuanceerde gruwel gemaakt.
Wat mijn verstand ten onder gaat heb ik geschreven.
© 2000, Rogi Wieg
From: Het boek van de bemminelijkheid
Publisher: De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam
From: Het boek van de bemminelijkheid
Publisher: De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam
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THE LETTERS
What goes beyond understanding, goes over one’s hat,
a light, woolly cloud of information and so forth.
I have the status of an expensive, strange,
magnificent rose, smelling of shit. Should
I therefore go on with creating? To do nothing
is not a future, collecting sunshine, chasing the dresses off women
and slowly growing older, narrower as the shinbone
of a dead toadstool. I must carry the letters.
Everything I have ever, or never, made is a box for blocks
with crooked blocks. It goes over my hats
why I, creator of flowers, hand over to you
a rotten rose. Oh beautiful, pleasant life,
I’ve produced refined, nuanced horror.
What goes beneath my understanding is what I’ve written.
© 2007, Michele Hutchison
From: Het boek van de bemminelijkheid
From: Het boek van de bemminelijkheid
THE LETTERS
What goes beyond understanding, goes over one’s hat,
a light, woolly cloud of information and so forth.
I have the status of an expensive, strange,
magnificent rose, smelling of shit. Should
I therefore go on with creating? To do nothing
is not a future, collecting sunshine, chasing the dresses off women
and slowly growing older, narrower as the shinbone
of a dead toadstool. I must carry the letters.
Everything I have ever, or never, made is a box for blocks
with crooked blocks. It goes over my hats
why I, creator of flowers, hand over to you
a rotten rose. Oh beautiful, pleasant life,
I’ve produced refined, nuanced horror.
What goes beneath my understanding is what I’ve written.
© 2007, Michele Hutchison
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