Zrnce soli (preljubnička balada)

Zrnce soli

(preljubnička balada)

U prolećni popodnevni dan

kreneš u grad sa jednim ciljem:

treba pod hitno naći ljubavnika.

A umesto u kafić, skreneš

u robnu kuću i kupiš:

masline, Camambere sir, šampon za kosu

i paket gumica za slavinu

iz koje danima već

tiho kaplje.

Celo prepodne tvoje suknja

beše kandilo

koje oglašava nečije tuđe

svece i praznične oluje.

Celo popodne i svečeri

ona je poklopac

pod kojim ključa

sasvim čista, skoro destilovana voda

namenjena

za jedno jedino zrnce soli.

Toliko vode

oko samo jednog zrna.

Toliko gumica

oko samo nekoliko kapi.

Uh.

Grain of Salt

(adulterer's ballad)

On a spring day's afternoon

you go downtown with one purpose:

a lover should  be found without delay.

Then, instead to a cafe, you turn

to a department store and you buy:

olives, Camembert cheese, hair shampoo

and a packet of washers for a tap

which is dripping quietly

for days already.

All afternoon your skirt

was a vigil lamp

voicing some other people's

saints and holliday storms.

Whole afternoon and in the evening

it is a lid

under which

quite clean, almost distilled water  is boiling

intended

for one and only grain of salt.

So much water

about only one grain.

So many washers

about several drops only.

Ugh.

(Translated by Slobodan Cekić)
Za Meju ♥