(-15) PROZOR NA ZIDU
Rođen u idealnom društvu, besplatno sam dobio sobu
u kojoj ću trajati.
Tražio sam dozvolu – da probijem jedan od četiri zida,
da načinim prozor.
Rekoše da stavim sliku vođe – ona je prozor u svijet.
Pitao sam sva četiri zida
koji može izdržati ranu, jer kanim ekser zakucati.
I sva četiri zida se javiše kao dobrovoljci. Rekoše:
Bolje nositi sliku vođe, nego biti zid za uza zid.
Kad sam okačio sliku – progovori vođa sa slike.
Ohol, tražio je da pozlatim ram.
U inat vođi, uklonih sliku sa zida. I ugledah prazninu.
To sam shvatio kao umjetnost: praznina se
ukazala kao slijepi prozor, ali soba, sa sva četiri zida,
stade se cerekati.
Pitao sam – šta ti je, sobo?
Nisam ja soba. Ja sam ćelija.
从: Zidovi
Beograd: Albatros plus, 2014
录制: Serbian PEN Centre 2018
(-15) WINDOW ON THE WALL
Being born in the ideal society, I’ve got a room free of charge
to exist in it.
I’ve asked for permission – to make a hole on one of the four walls,
to make a window.
They’ve told me to put a picture of our leader – it’s a window to the world.
I’ve asked all four walls
which can withstand a wound because I want to hammer a nail?
And all four walls volunteered. They’ve told me: Better
bear a picture of our leader, than to be a wall for against the wall.
When I hanged the picture – a leader from the picture spoke.
Haughty, he asked me to gild the frame.
To spite him, I took away the picture from the wall. And I saw a void.
I decided to see it as art: the void
showed itself as a blind window, but the room, with all four walls,
started to laugh.
I’ve asked – what’s the matter, room?
I’m not a room. I’m a prison cell.