Adam Cullen
englisch
Inimi
Inip nipaannerani qasertumi
nikorfavutit aliortukkatut igalaap saani siniffimma saniani
toqoreersimasutullu pissuseqarlutit timit nilloreersutut tungujorluni
uteqattaartuarpoq timiga ujarlugu
Maaniinngilanga
naamerluinnaq maaniinngilanga
isiginnaaginnarpunga ippernaarannguatut timmeralaarlunga
sussaajunnaarlunga timmeralaarpunga
miffissarsiorlunga aammik milluagassannik
ila inoorusukkaluaqaanga
Qasertumi qaamanerunngitsumi
nipinik tipinillu ulikkaartumi
pilapparma ammarterparma
uangaasimassaarmi
arriitsumik aggorparma, uumasutut pilapparma ammarterlunga
soorlu pisaqarsimasutit
uummatiga, puakka, tingugalu tiguatit, tassami suna tamarmi uannik uumatitsisussaq uanniit peerpat
uumasuutigaarma pisat
angussuartut pissarsuartut pissatsisimaarlutit allanut perusuttunut
tunniussuupparma
angussuuvutimmi!
Maaniinngilanga sinnattuinnartungaana
ullukkullu isumassarsiorlunga sallumik imminut
uumatittarpunga
imminut uumatinneq ilikkavipparami
unnuakkut neqera ataasiakkaarlugu aggortarpat
arriitsumik naavit iluani oqukkiartorpunga
nerineqarsimallunga atorneqarsimallungalu
naggataagullu illuatungaatigut anniseqqittarparma
eqqaavittut tipittutut attorneqarusunngitsutut ilillunga
Maanna ini qaammarpallaarpoq
seqinnerpoq
igalaaq matusariaqarpara silarsuaq mattullugu
tipit nipillu mattullugit
timima aggorneri katersorlugit
ilami timiga atoqqissinnaanersoq
misilikkaluartariaqarpara
Naaguna ippernaaraatinnguara timmeralaartuartoq?
Audioproduktion: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2012
***[Downtown Tallinn is beautiful]
Downtown Tallinn is beautiful. Over there, by Estonia Theater and the
old bank (where independence was proclaimed) and the secondary school.
Just one shopping center stretches like a bomb crater across the road. Over there,
that school, is where we attended. My grandfather graduated in '47, in the USSR.
During German occupation, in '42, he bought himself a Kalevipoeg flag holder:
Estonia's tricolor is planted in it even today. I went to school in Soviet times and
studied myself free. My daughter hasn't seen that despotism. A child of
free time and school.The most frightful thing now is that shopping center across the way.