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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!

JA SAM STRANAC

JA SAM STRANAC

Ja sam stranac! Dobar vecer
Da 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!
Ivan  Slamnig

Ivan Slamnig

(Kroatië, 1930 - 2001)

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JA SAM STRANAC

Ja sam stranac! Dobar vecer
Da 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!

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!
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