Pavol Janik Poems

Barefoot
you leap from star to star.
And each time there's a chime
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Life which means only the theater -
such life we always wish to play.
If just now you've got a funny thought
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(for Miroslav Valek)
Roots grow into the earth like coffins,
Opera singers
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I say in vain
to my wife
that she can't nag
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At the beginning it was like a dream.
She said:
"Have at least one dream with me.
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(For my parents who are not yet - departed-)
In my innermost display cases
all my glassy memories tremble.
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I,
You,
He
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How much is the Czechoslovak crown worth here
in the capital of the ugliest women in the world
where the only chance for survivor
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The moment air stops
close in front of your face
and checks the size of your lungs,
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You emerge from beyond the horizon,
heedlessly towards darkness
and inattentive towards smothering dreams.
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