It grew dark.
The streets all blurred.
I went out.
And hunger
Was there to meet me.
All I saw was a dark blur,
Every city park
And then beyond,
One alleyway after another.
It’s all the same to me, though:
Whether out in the fields
Or roaming the streets here,
I won’t run into bread.
Yet bread is walking.
For some it even climbs up on the table.
While some even have extra, to go with the bread.
Most respectable Lady Bread,
What makes you so hot and crazy for my brothers?
Why the unending springtime of fat, brushing their lips?
O bread,
Why is the evening so sad?
Answer me.
For you are good.
For you are mother to both
Me and the one
Kicks you around and can’t stand you.
O bread!
If you knew how I love you,
What illusions I put on,
You’d be rolling toward me,
Not in loaves
But moons and suns
Not the least bit smaller
Than the ones out there
In the so-called heavenly blue.
Why is the evening so sad?
Why is the wind whistling so loud?
Don’t tell me it’s whistling for the last time?
Don’t tell me it’s the sky falling?
Not the stars!
O no:
It’s loaves of bread
Falling on my head!
It’s glory and salvation,
The crowds coming
Out to greet me,
Their down-to-earth Universal Food Distributor.
A fair share for all:
One earth-size loaf,
One whole loaf each,
Each one the size
Of the earth.
Hosanna in the highest!
0 come, all you
In love with bread,
That everloving Cleopatra,
One hellcat of a Carmen.
That big round loaf
For each and every soul,
The biggest one there is,
To get up the courage and circle the earth with.
And thereafter, ever after, live
self-reliant
In splendid independence
From hunger and sadness
Who come to haunt us
Whenever
We want so much to eat.
(Juozas Tysliava)
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