Status Updates From Backbone Flute: Selected Po...

Potrzebuję przeczytać coś dobrego, a że ostatnio często sięgam po Majakowskiego, liczę, iż "Flet kręgosłupa" w (przeciwieństwie do tego z Goodreads) polskim przekładzie mi w tym pomoże.

I too would like to be known as a cloud in trousers

Kindness to horses! Read it!

If the stars are lit, then someone must need them

Backbone Flute
Part III
…
This gift, my dear, do not disregard, -
perhaps, after this, I’ll write nothing at all.
Convert into a holiday this precious date!
O, crucifixion-like magic,
create and create now!
As you see, -
with the nails of words, today,
I am nailed to paper.

A Cloud in Trousers
Part III
…
Look -
is the sky playing Judas once more,
with a handful of stars that were soaked in betrayal?

To his own beloved self the author dedicates these lines
...
But where is someone
like me
to go?
What refuge or shelter is there?
If only I were
shallow,
like the Pacific Ocean, -
I'd rise on the tiptoes of waves
to caress the moon with the tide.
Where shall I find a love
of my own proportions?

Listen!
If the stars are lit,
then someone must need them, of course?
Then someone must want them to be there,
calling those droplets of spittle pearls?
...