ALL ZU FLÜCHTIG / ALL TOO EPHEMERAL / TOTUL PREA EFEMER

POSTED IN Roland January 8, 2022

ALL ZU FLÜCHTIG / ALL TOO EPHEMERAL / TOTUL PREA EFEMER

Ich bin dir begegnet
im all zu prosaischen Winkel
der all zu prosaischen Stadt,
da, wo die rostigen Kästen verenden,
an einem Grasfleck, wo die Hunde
vielleicht ihr Hinterbein heben.
Du kamst vorüber und warfst
nur den einen
all zu prosaischen Satz
in die Vorstadt-Leere.
Doch wie du ihn sagtest
und was
sich blitzartig ahnen ließ,
es riss eine Bresche.
Ich ging mechanisch weiter,
sorgsam in dichte Tücher verpackt,
ging meines stumpfen Wegs und trat
die Mühle.
Ich hatte dir nichts
von Helligkeit und Belang
zu erwidern.

ROLAND ERB

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ALL TOO EPHEMERAL

I met you
in the all-too-prosaic corner
of the all-too-prosaic city,
where the rusty boxes perish
in a patch of grass where the dogs
might lift their hind leg.
You passed by and threw
just the one
all-too-prosaic sentence
into the suburban void.
But as you said it
and what
could be foreseen in a flash,
it tore a breach.
I went on mechanically
carefully wrapped in thick cloth,
I went my blunt way and kicked
the junk.
I had nothing
of brightness and importance
to say to you.

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TOTUL PREA EFEMER

Te-am intalnit
într-un colt prea prozaic
al orașului prea prozaic,
unde pier cutiile ruginite
intr-un petic de iarbă unde câinii
ar putea sa-si ridice piciorul din spate.
Ai trecut pe langa mine și ai aruncat
doar o singura
propoziție mult prea prozaică
în golul suburban.
Dar, asa cum ai spus-o
si ceea ce
se putea ghici într-o clipită,
a sfasiat o breșă.
Am mers mai departe mecanic
invelit cu grijă în panza groasa,
am mers pe drumul meu tocit și am dat cu piciorul
in gunoi.
Nu aveam nimic
briliant sau important
sa-ti raspund.

traducere, M. M. Biela