Submitted by LonelySoul
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Author: Mehmet Cetin
Translator: Suat Karantay
"Apisarasi Yalnizligi," Askkiran (2002 -- first edition 1997). Istanbul: Piya Kitapligi, pp. 39-40.
shatter—buddha of the green glance shimmering with silk
a riddle that fills itself with poison
keep silent don't speak to anyone
shred that possibility just drink your genever and think
they make loneliness begin between the legs
shred it shred the person and the khaki belly-ache
shred the night shred the sheets and follow your fate
do it just like that: just like the string from a guitar
sever yourself from yourself like the severed earthworm
swallow yourself in one gulp give your heart a reprieve
swallow your voice shred the silence and spit out your lungswith a cough spit out the world: just like that
get out and let the duisberg planet f*ck off
don't put up with yourself you're no great prize
don't use the telephone don't trust in love or beget children
stretch out on the railway tracks and if you feel like singing
go out in the rain wet your head and fly as high as the moon
don't give flowers to any sweetheart forget you're in love
and don't tell a soul but hold onto your prick
sever once and sever again and let the guitar string sever
shred love and shred that final penchant of your body
it's nothing but an old tale belonging to those who told it
don't work in the economic sections of newspapers
go out in the wind and on the most fragile of the branches
build your dream and fall like raindrops into your own heart
search for your fate on mountaintops stand closer to the moon
exist like the frail primrose in this isolation of yours
blow bubbles and sing songs without meddling with anyone
if mankind makes loneliness begin between the legs
cough it up and spit out the whole world: just like that