Great Britain
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
FRANCE
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Germany
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Italia
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Albania
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Poland
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Russia
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Slovakia
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Sweden
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
Slovenija
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic
North Macedonia
SIMULATING AN ACCOMPLICE
Here we go: I can imagine streets
you unsteadily walked along, practice steps
and recognize odors of rooms, clothes
and household furniture. The insomnia I already possess,
and have long since traveled through labyrinths.
With a little help from imagination, I could re-enact events
from my childhood and youth. (The hardest would be, indeed,
the dark period.) Fictions are, anyway, incomparably
more reliable than facts. I would study a language,
practice the accent. Would learn all kinds of things about wars,
religions, the most about books, and about love
and tigers — somewhat. I would cope somehow
even with too inquisitive people, but would always
pick only one to speak to.
While they would be reading me, people would know
it is their lives they are reading about. Time and space,
my states of mind — would not matter much.
Of course, I would lay claim to your verse, too;
others would say it is in the manner of
your games with doubles. All in all,
I would honorably play the accomplice’s role.
Translated by Uros Zekovic