Five Minutes Please I By Nazim Hikmet Poem by Metin Sahin

it happened
on one tuesday evening
may be in autumn
in çankırı city in TURKEY
the day was bright
the weather was good
a crowd of people
gathered in the CITY GARDEN
eating ice-cream
drinking soft drinks
chatting
as if entertaining
they were also listening to the news
on the public loud-speaker
a child cried
the wolf-hound of the gendarme lıeutenant
ran to the garden gate
suddenly
the woman in blues
asked the tonnage
of the biggest war tanks
when she got the answer
she shut her mouth
with her hands and cried
in horror
as the spectacled physıcs teacher
was explaining how the loud-speaker worked
to his daughter crippled
a leaf fell down slowly
from the chestnut tree
a man cleared her nose
noisily and shamefully
with his handkerchief
and just at ten past six
the extra ordınary event
ı mentıoned occured
piraye..my wife
kemal and I were outside
we were in the gaol garden
cause I was a prısoner of poem
the loud-speaker was inside the city garden
just at the oppsite side..before us
the loud-speaker was painted green
the loud-speaker was stuck
at the top of a bare..long iron post
the loud speaker was talkıng
with a wet woman voıce
ıt was announcıng a news and sayıng so
the enemy has left many dead
in the war front
all the motırised army corps....