Maria Lee

الأستونية

Adam Cullen

الانجليزية

Alibi

Jah me pidime kohtuma
mul oli aku tühi
ta tuli teatrist ja
tulistas ennast pähe

jooksis autole ette
ja lendas
katuselt traataeda

ainus vihje et see oli
nõnda planeeritud:
ta oli natuke liiga ilus

ainus vihje mis jäi
et see polnud päris

kujutlused on meie needus

ta tuli teatrist
ja mul oli aku tühi

© Maria Lee
الإنتاج المسموع: Eesti Kirjanduse Teabekeskus [Estonian Literature Centre], 2014

Alibi

Yes we were supposed to meet
my battery was dead
she came from the theater and
shot herself in the head

she ran in front of a car
and flew
off the roof into a chain-link fence

the only clue that it was
planned that way:
she was a little too pretty

the only clue left
that it wasn't real

imagination is our curse

she came from the theater
and my battery was dead

Translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen