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#day6
#fakerthatflees
#unkownlanguage
#poetryinternational
Faker that flees
I’ve always been cute,
seedier, badly formed man, mansplaining, fluid
coalesced tendrils, faker that flees.
It’s in our nature, that zygote, mars lives, no he’s struck,
open handed twitch, midday all is dark, begin night.
I’ve been my own gestalt,
we die galvanised, die verses, molested
green bucks die, high on gas, minds broken.
Always they break, its under done.
Damn let minds hoof, this verbiage, never venereal and order the gin.
Today’s prompt involved choosing a poem from Poetry International in a language you don’t know then reading the poem to yourself, thinking about the sound and shape of the words, and the degree to which they remind you of words in your own language. Use those correspondences as the basis for a new poem. I chose "Only I have a cunt" by Sasja Janssen.
Ik alleen heb een kutjeals zeewier in bad of om een man gespannen huidkoele tegels, vaker dat vleeser is dat nauwe, dat zoete, maar liever niet het stuwenop een harde tl-middag als ik daar ben en jij niet.
Ik ben mijn geslachtweg die kalverpoten die verleiden moestengeen buik die hijgen gaat, mijn borstenals ja mijn borsten iets anders doendan legt mijn hoofd zich erbij neer van een heel andere orde te zijn.Here is the English translation by Michele Hutchison.Only I have a cuntlike seaweed in a bath or skin stretched around a mancold tiles, more often, that meatthere’s that tight one, that sweet one but not pushing towardsa hard strip-lit afternoon if I am there and you are not.I am my sexaway with those calf’s legs meant to seduceno belly that will heave, my breastsif yes my breasts do something elsethen my mind will settle on being something of quite a different category.
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