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I carved your name on my watchband	B
with my fingernail	C
Where I am you know	D
I don't have a pearl handled jackknife	E
they won't give me anything sharp	F
or a plane tree with its head in the clouds	G
Trees may grow in the yard	B
but I'm not allowed	B
to see the sky overhead	B
How many others are in this place	H
I don't know	D
I'm alone far from them	I
they're all together far from me	J
To talk anyone besides myself	E
is forbidden	K
So I talk to myself	E
But I find my conversation so boring	L
my dear wife that I sing songs	M
And what do you know	D
that awful always off key voice of mine	N
touches me so	D
that my heart breaks	O
And just like the barefoot orphan	K
lost in the snow	D
in those old sad stories my heart	B
with moist blue eyes	P
and a little red runny rose	Q
wants to snuggle up in your arms	R
It doesn't make me blush	S
that right now	T
I'm this weak	U
this selfish	V
this human simply	J
No doubt my state can be explained	B
physiologically psychologically etc	W
Or maybe it's	X
this barred window	D
this earthen jug	Y
these four walls	Z
which for months have kept me from hearing	L
another human voice	A2
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It's five o'clock my dear	B2
Outside	B
with its dryness	C2
eerie whispers	D2
mud roof	E
and lame skinny horse	E2
standing motionless in infinity	J
I mean it's enough to drive the man inside crazy with grief	E
outside with all its machinery and all its art	B
a plains night comes down red on treeless space	H
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Again today night will fall in no time	F2
A light will circle the lame skinny horse	E2
And the treeless space in this hopeless landscape	G2
stretched out before me like the body of a hard man	H2
will suddenly be filled with stars	I2
We'll reach the inevitable end once more	J2
which is to say the stage is set	B
again today for an elaborate nostalgia	W
Me	J
the man inside	B
once more I'll exhibit my customary talent	B
and singing an old fashioned lament	B
in the reedy voice of my childhood	B
once more by God it will crush my unhappy heart	B
to hear you inside my head	B
so far	K2
away as if I were watching you	L2
in a smoky broken mirror	M2
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It's spring outside my dear wife spring	L
Outside on the plain suddenly the smell	N2
of fresh earth birds singing etc	W
It's spring my dear wife	E
the plain outside sparkles	O2
And inside the bed comes alive with bugs	P2
the water jug no longer freezes	Q2
and in the morning sun floods the concrete	B
The sun	K
every day till noon now	T
it comes and goes	Q
from me flashing off	E
and on	R2
And as the day turns to afternoon shadows climb the walls	Z
the glass of the barred window catches fire	M2
and it's night outside	B
a cloudless spring night	B
And inside this is spring's darkest hour	M2
In short the demon called freedom	S2
with its glittering scales and fiery eyes	P
possesses the man inside	B
especially in spring	L
I know this from experience my dear wife	E
from experience	T2
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Sunday today	B
Today they took me out in the sun for the first time	F2
And I just stood there struck for the first time in my life	E
by how far away the sky is	Q2
how blue	L2
and how wide	B
Then I respectfully sat down on the earth	U2
I leaned back against the wall	V2
For a moment no trap to fall into	L2
no struggle no freedom no wife	E
Only earth sun and me	J
I am happy	J
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Trans by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk	L

Nazim Hikmet

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