YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE for whom every day
is ruined and then gone.

If it could be so, think for a moment,
no one else would sit down at the vacant table and start crying.

Look (he says): There is nothing here.
For all that will come you have to go to bed right now.

I’m sleepy, really,
without any reason, says

that Portuguese man.
(So, go on singing

on the other side, in the company
of the lame and mute.)

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE

JEDINI SI KOME svaki dan
propadne i nestane.

Da je barem tako, pomisli samo,
nitko drugi ne bi sjeo za ispražnjeni stol i zaplakao.

Vidi (kaže): Ovdje nema ničega.
Za sve što će doći već sada vrijedi otići spavati.

Spava mi se zaista,
bez objašnjenja, kaže

taj Portugalac.
(A ti potom pjevaj

s one strane, u društvu
šepavih i mutavih.)