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Miroslav Kirin

THE READER OF THE TOUCH

THE READER OF THE TOUCH was fired.
Actually, he forgot his own language.

For there where the touch was
now a merciless clutch coils,

python-like, crawling in the bed and stammering
instead of talking, strangling instead of caressing.

And the speaker of the body was fired, too.
Actually, he never really had a job.

For there where the body mattered,
words were overflowing,

caressing instead of strangling,
talking instead of touching.

THE READER OF THE TOUCH

ČITAČ JE DODIRA ostao bez posla.
Zapravo, zaboravio je vlastiti jezik.

Jer tamo gdje se radilo o dodiru
sada se izvija nemilosrdni stisak,

poput onoga od udava, gmizi posteljom
i šušlja govoreći, daveći umjesto milujući.

I govornik je tijela ostao bez posla.
Zapravo, nikad ni nije bio zaposlen.

Jer tamo gdje se radilo o tijelu
bujale su riječi,

milujući umjesto da dave,
govoreći umjesto dodirujući.
Miroslav  Kirin

Miroslav Kirin

(Kroatië, 1965)

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THE READER OF THE TOUCH

ČITAČ JE DODIRA ostao bez posla.
Zapravo, zaboravio je vlastiti jezik.

Jer tamo gdje se radilo o dodiru
sada se izvija nemilosrdni stisak,

poput onoga od udava, gmizi posteljom
i šušlja govoreći, daveći umjesto milujući.

I govornik je tijela ostao bez posla.
Zapravo, nikad ni nije bio zaposlen.

Jer tamo gdje se radilo o tijelu
bujale su riječi,

milujući umjesto da dave,
govoreći umjesto dodirujući.

THE READER OF THE TOUCH

THE READER OF THE TOUCH was fired.
Actually, he forgot his own language.

For there where the touch was
now a merciless clutch coils,

python-like, crawling in the bed and stammering
instead of talking, strangling instead of caressing.

And the speaker of the body was fired, too.
Actually, he never really had a job.

For there where the body mattered,
words were overflowing,

caressing instead of strangling,
talking instead of touching.
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