Сто лет одиночества [Sto let odinochestva] [English translation]

And there will be healing bread

As if nothing happened

Like an ellipsis1

And this half decent summer of mine

Which has one first name

And one last name

Lips puckered up

The thread goes into the needle

Not just life-it’s a fair in the town of Sorochi

We fell in love overseas

Grieved for grief

Threw a short-lived spark upwards

Painted little houses with unsober paints

We called ourselves mushrooms, climbed into storage rooms

We wandered worlds like fleas on the back of a head

We triumphantly roamed around in unwashed cups

Through overworked minds

Through scared bodies

On rotting ceilings

We fell out, one after another, like baby teeth

Letting out a breath and a cry

We bubbled like dirty coins

In the turned-out2 pockets of wooden suits

Boiling, mighty, undefeated by anyone

Like pots burned by gods

And behind our backs we hid

Skis on porches

Sleds

Sleighs

Fairy tales

Arabic stories

On the seventh day he got so fucking tired of everything:

Let it all bloom rapidly, intestines out

To the north, to the east, to the west, to the south

Let it come suddenly

Like never before

Let it come right out the throat

Right out of the mirror

And gruesomely dislodge out from under the skin

Fibers of wood and flesh

My absurd self-willed joy

THE BLOOD CURDLING spring!..

To peck wide-eyed oats at sunrise

To kiss unrestrainable palms at sunset

Stomp your foot

And all the windows and doors will come flying the fuck out

Eyes, forks, spoons

And foldable little knives

There’s yet another silly story of love

A sad little tale about a piggy bank

A funny story about how Svidrigailov

was about to go to America

He was lucky, like a mirror reflecting a fire

Festive, like a full moon clutched in a sweaty fist

Long awaited, like a loud ring of snakes

The one and only, like a little word thrown into a sentence

Wonderful, like a hundred voluntary years

Of solitude.

1. ellipsis is the name for three dots, as in ...2. as in, turned inside out