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JA SAM STRANAC


I am a nobody. Who are you?
E. Dickinson

Ja sam stranac! Dobar vecer
Da l’ si i ti stranac?
Dva smo, znaci? nemoj reci, jer
stavit ce nam lanac.

Tuzno li je biti domac
i prosto, poput zabe,
kreketat do u bozju ponoc
sred zadimljene grabe!





I AM A FOREIGNER


I am a nobody. Who are you?
E. Dickinson

I am a Foreigner! Good evening.
Are you a foreigner too?
It makes us a couple, isn’t it so? Don’t tell, because
they’ll chain up me and you.

It is sad to be a native
and it is boorish, like a frog,
croaking all night long
from a fuming bog!