The House

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Along with the first false sun

We got a visit from Agim

The woodman from near Prishtina

He brought us two red apples

Wrapped in a scarf

And the news that he'd finally got a house.

At last you've a roof over your head, Agim

No, no roof

The wind tore it off

You've a door and windows then

No door and no windows either

The winter carried them away

You've four walls at least

I've not even got four walls

All I have is a house like I said

The rest will be easy

[*Agim, a masculine Albanian first name, means Dawn or Daybreak.

Prishtina is of course in Kosov@.]

[Translated by Anthony Weir]