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by Guido Monte

 

Multilingual Poetry

 

 

 

What sort of time is this, when talking about the trees is almost a crime
since it means to pass over too many slaughters in silence (B. Brecht)

Tempo © 2009 Laura Collura

 

 

(Swans - April 20, 2009)  

"Çdo gjë e rendomtë"
tudo è dificil
tuttu è duru
all is grave

"Çdo gjë e dhimbje"
tudo è aflição
tuttu è duluri
all is pain

"Çdo gjë e padrejtë"
tudo è injusto
tuttu è ingiustu
all is inequity

Death
is payed
by living

 

 

Languages: Albanian, Portuguese, Sicilian, English.

The author thanks Klaudia Thekna (Albanian translation); Brecht's citation is translated by Giusy Chirco and Alaina Bryen.

Picture: Tempo, by Laura Collura (2009).

 

 

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