Branko Miljkovic - Tired song

 Let the ones who have the world

Think of what to do with it.

All we have are words

And we live wonderfully in that poverty.


It's consoling to be the ground

It's prideful to be a stone

It's too wise to be fire

It's pious to be nothing


Dirty from an overly sung forest

The poet sings despite poetry

Without a heart without violence and without a spark

Like a word which got over music


Freedom has become old-fashioned

My real name waits for me to die

You bird behind the sun in the middle of a sentence

By which we violently kiss the future

Everything burned: that's a holiday


The obedient ash

Flour of nothingness

Turns to a scabby dog behind my back

To a spark-bird before me

Behind my back, it tells me the truth


Oh turtledove

You're the real accent of our dead tenderness

Make the dawn out of our fatigue

Smell is the time the flower owned


But a wordn't says

it's too

late

A flowern't says

it's 

night

A birdn't says

it's a

flame

And is says it isn't

Hearing that, the bird cusses

The flower says it's hell

The real word is yet to be born





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