Menu
(Marin Sorescu, Romania)
For breakfast a thin buttered slice
Of life.
With it we take water which rises incessantly
(Last night it covered three-quarters of the globe}
And boil it sterile of microbes.
For lunch we eat well and substantially
Three courses of earth:
Black earth, loess and clay.
We don’t usually have a cooked dinner.
We take
Either a star with a bit of honey
Or if it isn’t finished
Some happiness (which in fact we keep
For Sundays)
And whatever else is left over.
(Rendered in English by Constantin ROMAN, London,
© 2012, Copyright Constantin ROMAN)
Centre for Romanian Studies – London
