DOKTORI DOLAZE I ODLAZE

Doktor je došao, pogledao me i šta mi je prepisao?
Imali smo mnogo pesama za večeru
Isuviše mnogo drama, tri loša romana i dve sumnjive novele
Pet imitacija za doručak i romansiranu biografiju za ručak
Vrlo je to loše za vašu ishranu vrlo loše     vrlo rdjavo za vaš duh
VAŠ DUH NIJE AUSPUH   VAŠ DUH NIJE AUSPUH   VAŠ DUH

I tako doktori dolaze i odlaze             grickaju trule grozdjice
Nose pohabane kabanice    i pričaju dvosmislice
U životu punom traume   dogme i slanine   
slanine i dogme         prasići i rolne
Stvoreni na dnu
Najdubljeg purpurnoga mora

© Nina Živančević
Production audio: Radio Belgrade 2

THE DOCTORS COME AND GO…

The doctor came and saw me and what did he prescribe?

You’ve had too many poems for dinner,

Far too many plays, three bad novels and two borderline novellas

Five doggerels for breakfast and a romance for lunch

Very very bad for your diet  very very sad for your brain

WHAT A STRAIN WHAT A STRAIN   WHAT A STRAIN

And the doctors come and go munching seedy sultanas

Wearing dirty bandanas reproducing an everlasting shock

In a life filled with schlock, schlock and sleaze,

 mice and geese

Made at the bottom

of the deepest crimson sea



Translated by the author