SUROGAT

[translation by Stella Davis & Mădălina Moţ of Surogat de impostură] in a garden I plant ash trees with broken wings and I urge them to die in a stupid war with the stereotypes of the night

[translation by Stella Davis & Mădălina Moţ of Surogat cam mizantrop] what do you expect to discover now about me and inside me? with every word I masquerade or I mutilate- depending on the case- an emotion which I can barely remember

[translation by Nigel Walker & Alexandra Sârbu of Surogat de surogat] I don’t know what poems are good for whom and from what my surrogates will save whether they will brighten days lives nights inspire tortures and sects

[translation by Nigel Walker & Alexandra Sârbu of Surogat de amintire] light was falling and breaking on the ground where I had spread grass and maize-flour rolls we were listening to rammstein on the quiet drinking from half grapefruits

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[translation by Stella Davis & Mădălina Moţ of Surogat de ploaie] no one is interested in politics anymore the poem about it burnt in ‘89 so no, another theme

[translation by Stella Davis & Mădălina Moţ of Surogat de roşu] you have a mad friend he saw his brother dying he jumped down when the water had just left

[translation by Stella Davis & Mădălina Moţ of Surogat de viitor] everything is going to be all right you will be happy the sun will shine just for you every you will be read as a plural whenever you may wish this

[translation by Stella Davis & Mădălina Moţ of Surogat de viaţă] it got into your head that it hurts and you thrust it out of the window apparently to cry in the rain without observing that your neighbour upstairs is shaking out the last drops of the extinct urination horrible!- you shall say

[translation by Nigel Walker & Alexandra Sârbu of Surogat de sfat] after the great settling down started from the dumping cart you are not allowed to write anymore that someone’s IQ doesn’t outgrow his shoe size, be straight