What do you search for in this humid dungeon, you, my friend,
My dear father, you who reached the threshold of seventy?
Do not search for the sweet tracks of your past here just in vain,
So long, so long ago they have been erased cruelly…!
You want to cling, you still cling to life which has a sweet taste,
You get mixed in this wildly cheerful crowd which is so mad,
Which while buried in the smoke and the fumes and in the drinks
Sings disjointly, or dances, or else dreams with open eyes…!
Here, the women and the girls, having worn pants and sandals,
With their reddish and long hair, with their glorious breasts as well,
Stimulate the mad males and throw themselves in their laps
So willingly, by themselves, with an impulse of all flame…!
American morals have penetrated everywhere
And they’re pulling to them all of our new generations,
To the end in a fever of drunkenness, lechery,
In front of our helpless eyes, assimilates all mankind…!
While you, father, ah, in vain, still search for your sweet feeling…
Romantic love and discourse already now have been thrown
In history’s boundless lap…and morals spoiled totally
No more can keep you content…Hence, having turned to object
Of ridicule and sarcasm, you find yourself unwelcome,
And decide to throw yourself, in a frenzy so quickly
Out of the jail-like dungeon, where embracing each other
Girls and boys dance inflamed with lust unrestrained, illicit…
(Hagop Norashkharian)
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