IVAN SUHIVANOV


SICKNESS

Being silent is noble.

Being desperate - purifies.

The words, chewed
by thousands of generations
are sticky ...

Oh, Lord,
If only I didn't know all the words!



THREE BITS

If you follow the steps
of somebody's despair -
you will reach yourself again ...

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The faces towards the sea are eyeless
The eyes of the soul are distant
This way you look at the death, only.

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Let's creep towards our dream -
and sleep , and sleep ...
intending to wake up anywhere
but not here

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Off the ostensible things
the moan
breaks
grits

and endlees is the desert

reflections reaching its hearts

inside the ball of glances
is death

I want to yell
not just to tell it.



Translated by Zhivka Ivanova