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Since the envoys had brought news of the arrival of the Emperor, Bolesław’s kingdom had been overwhelmed by an all-encompassing state of commotion. Aside from the settlers living deep within the deepest forests, there was probably no one who did not, in some way or other, (...)
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The phones are always going wrong, so my parents aren’t upset when there’s no dialling tone. They’re at the fortieth birthday party of a female friend from their class at high school. They say they’re going downstairs to the phone booth for a (...)
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Tadeusz DąbrowskiMazurka
Grandma runs a shop selling religious souvenirs and
Yesterday, for nothing at all, she gave me a Saint
Francis, fully aware that I have a little Jesus and
A Blessed Sister Faustyna from the very same set.
This morning there was a Saint George, but he's gone now,
He should be here again soon after Sunday
(and not just him…) – says Grandma to
people, and people often listen to her with respect.
Around Friday heaven arrives; they no longer supply
Hell (it stays on the shelf too long), but I've got
Hell at home, as well as heaven and the saints. And, when
I get bored or sad, opposite myself I set out
Heaven and hell. In heaven I place the ones
From Grandma. In hell I put a little pig, a sapper and a
diver.
moral
treatise
when forced to make a choice
between the word and
the body in full bloom
the body of a woman and
the body of a poem
in full bloom I choose
the word I give my word
in order not to give my body
and I give my body
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I don't believe
„I don't believe from waking up
to falling asleep”
Tadeusz Różewicz
I
believe all round the clock
I was drunk when the drunken Pluszka
asked what makes me believe in God.
Pluszka said he doesn't believe
in anything higher than himself.
I really wanted to shower
Pluszka in a million sparkling
proofs that God exists,
but all that came into my head was
this: Pluszka, you
either believe or not.
Then I fell asleep. I dreamed about a poem.
The poem consisted exactly
of the dialogue quoted above
and a punch line that said everything.
In my sleep I thought
I'd write it all down in the morning. But
in the morning I'd forgotten. I'd forgotten that
final verse, which I do believe
EXISTS.
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