Poem

  1 Letter|              Like a mincing machine.~(1985
  2       | above
  3 Obv   |      something to give meaning to the absurdity.~Every day you gamble some
  4 Obv   |              around and conceal in an accursed land.~Giant proportions
  5 Letter|                many of my friends and acquaintances,~All with high names in
  6 Out   |              Murder~Birth~Are just as active.~  ~ ~
  7 Mire  |           heat,~Those legs wading and advancing through the muck,~Shoulders
  8       | against
  9 Foe   |              the cause ~Of our mutual aggression.~Oh, that day when we killed
 10 Euro  |           Take account of nothing.~Go ahead and explode,~Depart...~Oh,
 11 Mental|             himself:~Nonetheless, the Albanians~Wherever they may be,~Make
 12 Mire  |              Inadaptability, illness, alienation's vomit,~Scandal, divorce,
 13 Foe   |              revived, awakened,~Swore allegiance,~Was overwhelmed,~When death
 14 Obv   |           breath, path out of a blind alley,~But you don't understand
 15 Letter|             same old self,~The narrow alleys and low houses,~The weary
 16 Obv   |        survive somewhere~On emotional alms.~A face, attractive even
 17       | Alone
 18 Del   |        Certainly~Some base, unnatural~Ambition).~I return whence I came,
 19 Mire  |            know: love of the past, of ancestors,~Will ever end in arrogance,~
 20 Mire  |          young~Have they emerged from ancient plasma.~On the road, in
 21 Wait  |            this sphinx-like act,~With angelic blood in my veins.~I endure
 22       | anyone
 23 Exti  |    tranquility?~As a warning on those April evenings~You interrupted
 24 Death |              return to you.~But, more arduous is the going back...~I was
 25 Euro  |               let you freely exit the arena~With my blood which you
 26 Foe   |                               My foe~(Armiku im)~My foe,~Often you have
 27 Mire  |            Those eyes, lips, metallic arms,~Those muscles radiating
 28 Del   |            Which drips with the sweet aroma~Of blood crushed ~In solitude.~
 29 Death |        omnipotent silence,~From you I arose, in an endeavour~To return
 30       | around
 31 Mire  |           history will not succeed in arousing~The slightest feelings among
 32 Del   |             return whence I came, and arrive at nature.~Here I stand,
 33 Mire  |           ancestors,~Will ever end in arrogance,~As long as regents strive
 34 Exti  |            Shot into your sky like an arrow.~                  - Remember.~
 35 Mire  |        new-born stars,~Music of eyes, astonishment..~The collapse into bed,
 36 Obv   |                An attractive soul led astray, you continue to err,~You
 37 love  |             When love is not a means~(Atëherë kur dashuria nuk është mjet)~
 38 Euro  |           skull,~Oh, pride, strength, attribution of the explosion.~Insanity -
 39 Foe   |             you my substance revived, awakened,~Swore allegiance,~Was overwhelmed,~
 40 Del   |            invention!~(Certainly~Some base, unnatural~Ambition).~I
 41 Mire  |     reseparation ,~"FAREWELL", like a battered bird~Which seeks out the
 42 Out   |              The whole world reels in battle and dream.~But inside me
 43 Exti  |              does your face~No longer bear that lordly smile of tranquility?~
 44       | Became
 45       | becomes
 46 Mire  |      astonishment..~The collapse into bed, delirious sleep, lashed~
 47       | before
 48 Wait  |            don't see.~The fevers have begun, I am shaking.~I am awfully
 49 Obv   |               to err,~You know how to behave, but there is no moral in
 50 Sense |              responds to you, nothing belongs to you,~And still, my dear,
 51 Mental|             is our mental asylum,~Our beloved, moving asylum~With skulls
 52 Del   |             nor crown~Could ever have bestowed on me.~Praise! What word
 53 Letter|           chop them up, grind them to bits, I tell you,~Like a mincing
 54 Del   |              Oh, is there any greater bliss than this?~Could there be
 55 Mental|                                       block the horizon~And leave an
 56 Euro  |              you, set you free, clash blood-smeared with you?~Or let you freely
 57 Wait  |              from your oasis,~And has bloomed and succumbed within you...~ ~ ~
 58 Wait  |               from your oasis,~And is blooming, succumbing within you.~
 59 Mad   |               m not number one in her books.~Oh, I'm just mad about
 60 Mire  |         extemporaneous being has been born,~After it, another and then
 61 Wait  |          falls~Into the depths of the breast,~My face weeps~With eyes
 62 Obv   |        essence,~Claw like cats at the breasts of abandoned women.~An attractive
 63 Obv   |              you always had,~Support, breath, path out of a blind alley,~
 64 Out   |             and inside me~(Jashtë dhe brenda meje)~Outside me~The whole
 65 Mire  |             return of an overcast sky~Bringing nighttime ever so swiftly
 66 Del   |                   Delirium~(Delirium)~Broken,~                  sombre,~                                    
 67 Mire  |            muck,~Shoulders spiralling bronze-like in the face of death,~In
 68 Letter|               roads,~A fifteen-storey building in the middle,~Built like
 69 Letter|               building in the middle,~Built like my utopia,~Watchmen
 70 Mad   |          Wonderful. Is that what they call "irony?"~I'm just mad about
 71 Del   |          Ambition).~I return whence I came, and arrive at nature.~Here
 72 Obv   |              a flick of your whip you catch, pull in, entangle, ~Subdue,~
 73 Obv   |              their essence,~Claw like cats at the breasts of abandoned
 74 Foe   |           soul,~On mine.~They are the cause ~Of our mutual aggression.~
 75 Obv   |              encounter the death they caused you,~In the women you lost,
 76 Del   |               abandoned,~A state that causes harm to no one,~But me it
 77 Letter|               ladder by using me,~But causing my fall, not raising me
 78 Del   |               it come?~An invention!~(Certainly~Some base, unnatural~Ambition).~
 79 Letter|              love,~With a rift in its character,~Part of the rift in society,~
 80 Death |             the going back...~I was a child at the time,~Now I am grown.~ ~ ~
 81 Letter|                With my verses,~I will chop them up, grind them to bits,
 82 Mire  |              go their way,~Even Jesus Christ shrinks~At their terrestrial
 83 Euro  |            control you, set you free, clash blood-smeared with you?~
 84 Obv   |         destructive in their essence,~Claw like cats at the breasts
 85 Sense |                you are sucking again, cleansed~You return to life.~Your
 86 Euro  |             the explosion.~Insanity - clear conscience.~ ~ ~
 87 Mire  |              bird~Which seeks out the cliffs to perish.~Another day~Is
 88 Letter|              s tension,~Helping me to climb the ladder by using me,~
 89 Wait  |              Has torn me to pieces...~Close the doors and windows.~Keep
 90 Mental|               asylum with open doors~(Çmendina me portë hapur)~You are
 91 Mad   |              mad about Campari~(Jam i çmendur për Kampari)~I love Campari
 92 Paper |       exchanges signals~Even with the coldest, the most distant star.~
 93 Mire  |              eyes, astonishment..~The collapse into bed, delirious sleep,
 94 love  |         worlds emerge, stars shatter,~Colours vibrate to the sounds of
 95 Foe   |             no more conditions,~Being comes to an end).~Foe. My foe!~
 96 Mire  |             desire to vanish, depart, commit suicide,~That venom nourishing
 97 Wret  |               I cross inertia in your company,~Into my space composed
 98 Paper |               A white piece of paper, completely white,~With a blue smudge,
 99 Del   |         swiftly that it was beyond my comprehension~(do you think there is life
100 Ques  |               Rhetorical question for comrade x~(Pyetje retorike shoqes)~
101 Obv   |              body you drag around and conceal in an accursed land.~Giant
102 Foe   |               Where there are no more conditions,~Being comes to an end).~
103 Euro  |           explosion.~Insanity - clear conscience.~ ~ ~
104 Obv   |               on which nothing can be constructed.~Luxurious feelings, destructive
105 love  |           universal form thereof, the container of the cosmos,~Is love,~
106 Obv   |       attractive soul led astray, you continue to err,~You know how to
107 Euro  |                In my veins,~How can I control you, set you free, clash
108 Paper |          smudge, a blue smudge in the corner~Is the verse you should
109 Letter|            utopia,~Watchmen on street corners near the embassies,~Police -
110 love  |         thereof, the container of the cosmos,~Is love,~When it is not
111 Mire  |           they master:~Injured mouth, cracked lips, re-acquaintance, reseparation ,~"
112 Euro  |            inseminated?~Oh, crucified cries in the empty recesses of
113 Sense |            like a devil,~Tempted by a crime immune to law.~Senses, oh
114 Wret  |        solitary space you composed,~I cross inertia in your company,~
115 Del   |              Which~Neither praise nor crown~Could ever have bestowed
116 Euro  |             you have inseminated?~Oh, crucified cries in the empty recesses
117 Del   |              the sweet aroma~Of blood crushed ~In solitude.~Oh, ingenious
118 Mire  |              scorn, the exhibitionist cult~Of a nature which ideally
119 Obv   |            face, once attractive, now damaged,~In your traces I encounter
120 Exti  |         blue-coloured. You have grown dark.~Do you not know what this
121 Exti  |          satisfaction of security has darkened you.~Now with your hands
122 love  |              not a means~(Atëherë kur dashuria nuk është mjet)~When love
123 Mire  |                                  than daylight.~The first glow of the sun,
124 Foe   |               so terrible, beautiful, dead,~As never before.~And I
125 Letter|              not strong enough yet~To deal with what I'm telling you.~
126 Mire  |             Of a nature which ideally decomposes within them.~The human offence
127 Obv   |              the destruction, doubt, ~Decomposition,~A body you drag around
128 Letter|          through the nights in such a deep sleep.~I tell you, Mummy,
129 Mad   |                It's sooooooo sooooooo delicious.~Campari. I just love it.~
130 Mire  |                The collapse into bed, delirious sleep, lashed~By disturbing
131 Mire  |            hands.~Rain, the incessant deluge of exhaustion~                                    
132 Paper |              you should devote~To her departure...~  ~ ~
133 Wait  |             shines and falls~Into the depths of the breast,~My face weeps~
134 Mire  |             another,~New stars in the desolate human sky,~Perfect like
135 Obv   |                attractive even today, despite all the destruction, doubt, ~
136 Del   |             harm to no one,~But me it destroys~In pain~Which drips with
137 Obv   |           even today, despite all the destruction, doubt, ~Decomposition,~
138 Obv   |      constructed.~Luxurious feelings, destructive in their essence,~Claw like
139 Paper |               Is the verse you should devote~To her departure...~  ~ ~
140 Obv   |             Që ti je gomar, kjo është diçka që duket)~A face, once attractive,
141 Mire  |               of kings, merchants and diplomats~Once again to be imposed
142 Mental|             be found.~Be off, depart, disappear.~From place to place, from
143 Wait  |              what it is:~It is what I dislike and what I die for,~While
144 Mental|             moving asylum~With skulls dismembered.~Oh, my sacred madmen,~How
145 love  |             hiding?~Are you perchance displeased?~ ~ ~
146 Obv   |        encountered the traces of your dissipation, your dissolution,~Your
147 Obv   |             of your dissipation, your dissolution,~Your indirect manner of
148 Paper |            with the coldest, the most distant star.~A white piece of paper,
149 Mire  |            delirious sleep, lashed~By disturbing dreams, unreal, glaring,~
150 Mire  |          alienation's vomit,~Scandal, divorce, the flagrancy of these
151 Mad   |       sooooooo much.~My wife, no, she doesn't drink it.~I talk to her
152       | down
153 Obv   |             Decomposition,~A body you drag around and conceal in an
154 Sense |               when you are lucid)~You draw and suck, but find no fulfilment.~
155 Out   |             world reels in battle and dream.~But inside me too~Its voice
156 Mire  |           sleep, lashed~By disturbing dreams, unreal, glaring,~A thousand
157 Letter|             lost and more empty women~Drift through the nights in such
158 Mad   |              My wife, no, she doesn't drink it.~I talk to her for five
159 Del   |             it destroys~In pain~Which drips with the sweet aroma~Of
160 Mad   |              know that Campari can be drunk~Refined with soda water
161 Obv   |             gomar, kjo është diçka që duket)~A face, once attractive,
162 Obv   |         expiring, while you are still dying,~You hurl terrible tentacles
163 Would |                    It would be awful~(E tmerrshme do të ish)~It
164 Obv   |             same time.~A ring in your ear - something to give meaning
165 Euro  |           Depart...~Oh, purity of the East, fresh budding fears~Of
166 Euro  |                                       Eastern Europe~(Europë lindore)~
167 Mental|         country...~Oh, what shrieking echoes~Out of our asylum~As the
168 Euro  |          ringing, temples resounding,~Echoing within the skull, silence
169 Euro  |              the musty forms~Of human effigies:~Some gestures, sounds,
170 Exti  |               Blue-coloured, you blue egoist,~Slowly you went out in
171 Mire  |       existence, the stars~(Në llumin ekzistencial, yjet)~Are the names of
172 Letter|               street corners near the embassies,~Police - woodpeckers of
173 love  |               a means~Wondrous worlds emerge, stars shatter,~Colours
174 Mire  |              terribly young~Have they emerged from ancient plasma.~On
175 Obv   |               to survive somewhere~On emotional alms.~A face, attractive
176 Obv   |             damaged,~In your traces I encounter the death they caused you,~
177 Obv   |          senseless body.~I have often encountered the traces of your dissipation,
178 Death |               From you I arose, in an endeavour~To return to you.~But, more
179 Wait  |          angelic blood in my veins.~I endure sharp pains.~Keep away!~
180 Mire  |               death,~In an upsurge of energy, passion and sex,~When,
181       | enough
182 Obv   |              whip you catch, pull in, entangle, ~Subdue,~With sterile lips,
183 Obv   |               astray, you continue to err,~You know how to behave,
184 Obv   |        feelings, destructive in their essence,~Claw like cats at the breasts
185 Death |                    Death~(Vdekja)~Oh, eternal and omnipotent silence,~
186 Euro  |                               Eastern Europe~(Europë lindore)~Oh, race
187 Euro  |                       Eastern Europe~(Europë lindore)~Oh, race of the
188 Exti  |              a warning on those April evenings~You interrupted my every
189 Mental|         another mad,~While smiling in exaltation,~And all the while~Tears
190 Paper |              your muse~For your verse exchanges signals~Even with the coldest,
191 Mire  |               When, from the act, the exhausted soul is revived...~Oh, those
192 Mire  |               the incessant deluge of exhaustion~                                    
193 Mire  |               pride, their scorn, the exhibitionist cult~Of a nature which ideally
194 Mental|              who are setting off into exile,~With eyes fixed~On one
195 Euro  |           with you?~Or let you freely exit the arena~With my blood
196 Obv   |           death.~Oh, now that you are expiring, while you are still dying,~
197 Euro  |              of nothing.~Go ahead and explode,~Depart...~Oh, purity of
198 Euro  |          strength, attribution of the explosion.~Insanity - clear conscience.~ ~ ~
199 Obv   |               Your indirect manner of expression, of pollution,~Furtiveness,
200 Mire  |             Look, here in the mire~An extemporaneous being has been born,~After
201 Mental|          never look each other in the eye~Without hating one another,~
202 Del   |              once again withdraw.~How fair and yet mortal is man,~How
203 Wait  |          light shivers,~It shines and falls~Into the depths of the breast,~
204 Mire  |      re-acquaintance, reseparation ,~"FAREWELL", like a battered bird~Which
205 Letter|        treachery among men so much in fashion,~Never did more lost and
206 Euro  |                the pulsing~Steam...~I feel no pity and forgive no one,~
207 Wait  |             While my memory, a forest felled by the storms~                                    
208 Mental|           flow down our cheeks~Tears.~Fellow sufferers~Of our unique
209 Euro  |           rules the world.~Raises and fells the musty forms~Of human
210 Obv   |               Furtiveness, sophistry, fickleness, inexistence,~Of that inconstancy
211 Letter|             The weary wintry roads,~A fifteen-storey building in the middle,~
212 Exti  |                           Extinction~(Fikje)~You were once blue-coloured.
213 Sense |                You draw and suck, but find no fulfilment.~Nothing responds
214 Del   |   light-emitting,~Honey flows from my fissures,~Shattered at my weakest
215 Mad   |           drink it.~I talk to her for five minutes a week~And I'm not
216 Mental|             off into exile,~With eyes fixed~On one sole idea,~Oh, only
217 Mire  |          vomit,~Scandal, divorce, the flagrancy of these stars,~Oh, will
218 Mental|              Thinking it's "forever."~Fleeing from this, which is yours,
219 Obv   |               into the air ...~With a flick of your whip you catch,
220 Del   |               that inert unwinding in flight.~Everything absolute becomes
221 Mental|               And all the while~Tears flow down our cheeks~Tears.~Fellow
222 Del   |          stand, light-emitting,~Honey flows from my fissures,~Shattered
223 Foe   |              My foe!~Because of you I followed the tracks ~And understood
224 Mire  |               Those muscles radiating force and heat,~Those legs wading
225 Wait  |               for,~While my memory, a forest felled by the storms~                                    
226 Euro  |           Steam...~I feel no pity and forgive no one,~Take account of
227 Mire  |              will they be remembered, forgotten, despised, or praised?~Their
228 love  |        immortality,~And the universal form thereof, the container of
229 Euro  |            Raises and fells the musty forms~Of human effigies:~Some
230 Wait  |              heart...~It is a time of fracture.~Keep away from me!~Do not
231 Euro  |            can I control you, set you free, clash blood-smeared with
232 Mire  |            The first glow of the sun, freedom, nudity,~Then sorrow, like
233 Euro  |    blood-smeared with you?~Or let you freely exit the arena~With my blood
234 Letter|          offering me jobs, many of my friends and acquaintances,~All with
235 Del   |              me, real creatures,~In a fugitive transformation, my today~
236 Sense |            draw and suck, but find no fulfilment.~Nothing responds to you,
237 Exti  |              in your pockets you make fun of the others,~But why does
238 Obv   |             expression, of pollution,~Furtiveness, sophistry, fickleness,
239 Obv   |            the sands,~Every night you gain some of the immortality
240 Obv   |              absurdity.~Every day you gamble some of the quality of a
241 Mire  |          slightest feelings among the generations.~I know: love of the past,
242 Euro  |               Of human effigies:~Some gestures, sounds, impulses - ~Extinction
243 Obv   |          conceal in an accursed land.~Giant proportions and pitiful
244 Mad   |            about Campari...~She's the girl~I'm in love with.~ ~ ~
245 Obv   |               your ear - something to give meaning to the absurdity.~
246 Euro  |               steers of passion~Which gives life to my veins,~Oh, tranquillity
247 Out   |             They are loving, killing, giving birth~To millions.~But inside
248 Mire  |            disturbing dreams, unreal, glaring,~A thousand times truer
249 Mire  |              than daylight.~The first glow of the sun, freedom, nudity,~
250 Obv   |               you're an ass~(Që ti je gomar, kjo është diçka që duket)~
251 Mad   |                this way.~No, I am not gonna die like this.~I'm going
252 Foe   |             last time,~The day when I got the upper hand~And won (
253 Letter|           about to happen, Mummy,~The government was never so much against
254 Letter|          verses,~I will chop them up, grind them to bits, I tell you,~
255 Wait  |               singing within me,~Tiny groans will be heard, terribly
256       | had
257 Mental|              doors~(Çmendina me portë hapur)~You are going, you are
258 Del   |        abandoned,~A state that causes harm to no one,~But me it destroys~
259 Foe   |            are what I love~Not what I hate,~My foe.~Precisely those
260 Mental|              other in the eye~Without hating one another,~And such is
261 Del   |              the infinite pleasure~Of having in hand~My own being~Which~
262 Wait  |               me,~Tiny groans will be heard, terribly subtle,~In the
263 Del   |            and yet mortal is man,~How hearty and yet lonely.~Such strength
264 Mire  |           muscles radiating force and heat,~Those legs wading and advancing
265 Wait  |               terribly subtle,~In the heights of the brain, from the holes
266 Letter|            but low in life's tension,~Helping me to climb the ladder by
267 love  |                Oh Lord, where are you hiding?~Are you perchance displeased?~ ~ ~
268 Letter|               acquaintances,~All with high names in society, but low
269       | himself
270 Wait  |        heights of the brain, from the holes of the heart...~It is a
271 Del   |              I stand, light-emitting,~Honey flows from my fissures,~
272 Mental|                             block the horizon~And leave an infinite sky
273 Letter|             The narrow alleys and low houses,~The weary wintry roads,~
274 Foe   |              Streaming about ineptly,~Huffing and puffing~In ignorance,~
275 Mad   |               love it.~America is one huge supermarket...~That's where
276 Letter|              the toothless smile of a hungry love,~With a rift in its
277 Obv   |              you are still dying,~You hurl terrible tentacles of sickly
278 Mire  |  exhibitionist cult~Of a nature which ideally decomposes within them.~
279 Foe   |                Huffing and puffing~In ignorance,~Left their mark~On your
280 Mire  |             solitude,~Inadaptability, illness, alienation's vomit,~Scandal,
281 Foe   |                        My foe~(Armiku im)~My foe,~Often you have
282 Sense |             devil,~Tempted by a crime immune to law.~Senses, oh my sacred
283 Mire  |            diplomats~Once again to be imposed on memory?~Oh, this mad
284 Euro  |                Some gestures, sounds, impulses - ~Extinction once again.~
285 Mire  |      nourishing the senses: solitude,~Inadaptability, illness, alienation's vomit,~
286 Mire  |             In those hands.~Rain, the incessant deluge of exhaustion~                                    
287 Obv   |      fickleness, inexistence,~Of that inconstancy on which nothing can be
288       | indeed
289 Obv   |                your dissolution,~Your indirect manner of expression, of
290 Foe   |            THE MASSES~Streaming about ineptly,~Huffing and puffing~In
291 Del   |           unceasingly~You survey that inert unwinding in flight.~Everything
292 Wret  |           space you composed,~I cross inertia in your company,~Into my
293 Obv   |                sophistry, fickleness, inexistence,~Of that inconstancy on
294 Del   |               life of objects forever inexistent ~And have only myself in
295 Del   |             crushed ~In solitude.~Oh, ingenious is this state,~For as I
296 Mire  |            offence which they master:~Injured mouth, cracked lips, re-acquaintance,
297 Euro  |         attribution of the explosion.~Insanity - clear conscience.~ ~ ~
298 Euro  |               my blood which you have inseminated?~Oh, crucified cries in
299 Ques  |            with rouge,~But how do you intend to disguise~The pallor of
300 Exti  |              those April evenings~You interrupted my every word with a leaden
301 Del   |               me?~How did it come?~An invention!~(Certainly~Some base, unnatural~
302 Mad   |               Is that what they call "irony?"~I'm just mad about Campari...~
303 Would |              awful~(E tmerrshme do të ish)~It would be awful~Waking
304 Wait  |                        Wait a moment~(Ja dhe pak)~Wait a moment,
305 Mad   |               just mad about Campari~(Jam i çmendur për Kampari)~I
306 Out   |                Outside and inside me~(Jashtë dhe brenda meje)~Outside
307 Obv   |          obvious you're an ass~(Që ti je gomar, kjo është diçka që
308 Mire  |              stars go their way,~Even Jesus Christ shrinks~At their
309 Letter|         society,~They are offering me jobs, many of my friends and
310 Del   |         nature.~Here I stand, want to judge it, but once again withdraw.~
311 Letter|               woodpeckers of a waning June.~I sense that something
312 Mad   |            Campari~(Jam i çmendur për Kampari)~I love Campari sooooooo
313 Song  |                                 Song~(Këngë,)~Were you to rise~Not like
314 Foe   |      aggression.~Oh, that day when we killed each other,~When we saw
315 Out   |           Outside me~They are loving, killing, giving birth~To millions.~
316 Mire  |                yjet)~Are the names of kings, merchants and diplomats~
317 Obv   |               an ass~(Që ti je gomar, kjo është diçka që duket)~A
318 Foe   |            the streets,~Whom we never knew,~Whom we never took account
319 Euro  |              recesses of my mind,~Oh, knives of pain which shatter on
320 Foe   |              t know how life ties its knots,~But it does...~ ~ ~
321 Foe   |               be like without me?~Who knows?~(Where there are no more
322 love  |               is not a means~(Atëherë kur dashuria nuk është mjet)~
323 Letter|               Helping me to climb the ladder by using me,~But causing
324 Obv   |            and conceal in an accursed land.~Giant proportions and pitiful
325 Mire  |            into bed, delirious sleep, lashed~By disturbing dreams, unreal,
326 Mental|            our asylum~As the sun sets late in the west,~When longing
327 Sense |          Tempted by a crime immune to law.~Senses, oh my sacred victims,~
328 Exti  |      interrupted my every word with a leaden silence.~Blue-coloured,
329 Mental|                 block the horizon~And leave an infinite sky above.~There,
330 Mental|                You are going, you are leaving us,~Thinking it's "forever."~
331 Obv   |             women.~An attractive soul led astray, you continue to
332 Mire  |       radiating force and heat,~Those legs wading and advancing through
333 Mad   |           Refined with soda water and lemon?~It's sooooooo sooooooo
334 Wait  |            With bare tears,~Where the light shivers,~It shines and falls~
335 Del   |                     venomous~I stand, light-emitting,~Honey flows from my fissures,~
336 Song  |              Not like a leaf~But like lightning,~Let me be~The flower, the
337 Euro  |                Eastern Europe~(Europë lindore)~Oh, race of the steers
338 Mental|             in the west,~When longing lingers for its children in the
339 Letter|               me at all.~Dear mother, listen to me, don't worry,~With
340 Del   |            shun me, real creatures,~I live a life of objects forever
341 Mad   |              face up to things~Then I'll come back here.~But, did
342 Mire  |              existence, the stars~(Në llumin ekzistencial, yjet)~Are
343 Del   |               man,~How hearty and yet lonely.~Such strength and such
344 Mire  |             ever end in arrogance,~As long as regents strive to mark
345 Mental|           sets late in the west,~When longing lingers for its children
346 Wait  |               My face weeps~With eyes looking in.~Mystery of beauty,~Your
347 Exti  |              face~No longer bear that lordly smile of tranquility?~As
348 Mad   |            America with me?~What? "To lose your way?"~Wonderful. Is
349 Mad   |             In the Campari.~Hemingway loved it,~Not women...~Hemingway...
350 Sense |         tonight,~Lucid,~(Oh Lord, how lovely you are when you are lucid)~
351 Mire  |                                   she loves you.~All of this is History,~
352 Obv   |           nothing can be constructed.~Luxurious feelings, destructive in
353 Letter|              tell you,~Like a mincing machine.~(1985
354 Mental|            dismembered.~Oh, my sacred madmen,~How I love you,~Though
355 Sense |           senses.~And the brain, that magic devil,~Is now weeping.~Such
356 Wret  |      relevance,~For the miserable and magnificent reason~That I no longer
357 Letter|                Letter to Mummy~(Letër mamkës,)~Mummy,~Don't let anyone
358 Del   |            How fair and yet mortal is man,~How hearty and yet lonely.~
359 Obv   |            dissolution,~Your indirect manner of expression, of pollution,~
360       | many
361 Foe   |            never took account of:~THE MASSES~Streaming about ineptly,~
362 Mire  |              human offence which they master:~Injured mouth, cracked
363 Mental|               Albanians~Wherever they may be,~Make do with their own
364 Obv   |               ear - something to give meaning to the absurdity.~Every
365 Out   |          inside me~(Jashtë dhe brenda meje)~Outside me~The whole world
366 Mire  |            regents strive to mark our memories.~Look, here in the mire~
367 Letter|             Never was treachery among men so much in fashion,~Never
368 Mire  |               Are the names of kings, merchants and diplomats~Once again
369 Mire  |             first!"~Those eyes, lips, metallic arms,~Those muscles radiating
370 Letter|        fifteen-storey building in the middle,~Built like my utopia,~Watchmen
371 Mental|               sky above.~There, after midnight, the sobbing subsides,~Someone
372 Out   |              killing, giving birth~To millions.~But inside me too~Love~
373 Letter|              bits, I tell you,~Like a mincing machine.~(1985
374 Euro  |              the empty recesses of my mind,~Oh, knives of pain which
375 Mad   |                I talk to her for five minutes a week~And I'm not number
376 Mire  |               human sky,~Perfect like miracles,~Rare, like them,~Young,
377 Wret  |         beyond any relevance,~For the miserable and magnificent reason~That
378 love  |        Atëherë kur dashuria nuk është mjet)~When love is not a means~
379 Obv   |               behave, but there is no moral in your soul.~I am yours,
380 Del   |            withdraw.~How fair and yet mortal is man,~How hearty and yet
381 Letter|               raising me at all.~Dear mother, listen to me, don't worry,~
382 Mental|              another,~And such is the motive~For loving one another mad,~
383 Mire  |            which they master:~Injured mouth, cracked lips, re-acquaintance,
384 Mental|           mental asylum,~Our beloved, moving asylum~With skulls dismembered.~
385 Mire  |             and advancing through the muck,~Shoulders spiralling bronze-like
386 Out   |                But inside me too~Love~Murder~Birth~Are just as active.~  ~ ~
387 Mire  |           plasma.~On the road, in the murk of existence, the stars
388 Paper |      Separation is not worthy of your muse~For your verse exchanges
389 Mire  |              pates of new-born stars,~Music of eyes, astonishment..~
390       | must
391 Euro  |           world.~Raises and fells the musty forms~Of human effigies:~
392 Foe   |            They are the cause ~Of our mutual aggression.~Oh, that day
393       | myself
394 Foe   |               overwhelmed,~When death nailed our souls.~Oh, yes indeed,
395 Letter|             is its same old self,~The narrow alleys and low houses,~The
396 Mire  |              of existence, the stars~(Në llumin ekzistencial, yjet)~
397 Letter|            Watchmen on street corners near the embassies,~Police -
398       | Neither
399 Mire  |             another and then another,~New stars in the desolate human
400 Mire  |              skin,~Zygomatic pates of new-born stars,~Music of eyes, astonishment..~
401 Mire  |               conviction that life is nigh,~Another day, you love her
402 Obv   |              wane in the sands,~Every night you gain some of the immortality
403 Letter|               women~Drift through the nights in such a deep sleep.~I
404 Mire  |              an overcast sky~Bringing nighttime ever so swiftly to our eyes.~
405 Wret  |             an absolute conviction of no-return~(something which, I know,
406 Wret  |                     Wretched notions~(Nocione të shkreta)~Wretched notions~
407       | Nonetheless
408       | nor
409 Mire  |            commit suicide,~That venom nourishing the senses: solitude,~Inadaptability,
410 Mire  |             glow of the sun, freedom, nudity,~Then sorrow, like the return
411 love  |           means~(Atëherë kur dashuria nuk është mjet)~When love is
412 Mad   |            minutes a week~And I'm not number one in her books.~Oh, I'
413 Del   |           creatures,~I live a life of objects forever inexistent ~And
414 Euro  |     tranquillity of oppression, stoic observation, the pulsing~Steam...~I
415 Obv   |                                  It's obvious you're an ass~(Që ti je
416 Mire  |     decomposes within them.~The human offence which they master:~Injured
417 Letter|             rift in society,~They are offering me jobs, many of my friends
418 Letter|               you.~Tirana is its same old self,~The narrow alleys
419 Death |               Vdekja)~Oh, eternal and omnipotent silence,~From you I arose,
420 Foe   |               My foe.~Precisely those ones~Whom we despised~When we
421 Euro  |            veins,~Oh, tranquillity of oppression, stoic observation, the
422 Obv   |            left, who fled from you~In order to survive somewhere~On
423 Euro  |              muscles and the blood of origin.~Brain ringing, temples
424       | others
425       | ours
426 Mire  |         sorrow, like the return of an overcast sky~Bringing nighttime ever
427 Foe   |       awakened,~Swore allegiance,~Was overwhelmed,~When death nailed our souls.~
428 Wait  |              my veins.~I endure sharp pains.~Keep away!~You will be
429 Wait  |                 Wait a moment~(Ja dhe pak)~Wait a moment, the fevers
430 Letter|              a rift in its character,~Part of the rift in society,~
431 Mire  |      generations.~I know: love of the past, of ancestors,~Will ever
432 Mire  |              from the skin,~Zygomatic pates of new-born stars,~Music
433 Obv   |          always had,~Support, breath, path out of a blind alley,~But
434 Letter|             never so much against the people,~Never was treachery among
435 Mad   |          about Campari~(Jam i çmendur për Kampari)~I love Campari
436 love  |               are you hiding?~Are you perchance displeased?~ ~ ~
437 Mire  |               the desolate human sky,~Perfect like miracles,~Rare, like
438       | perhaps
439 Letter|             sleep.~I tell you, Mummy, peril is summoning me ~With the
440 Mire  |               seeks out the cliffs to perish.~Another day~Is reborn in
441 Mire  |             History,~All of this, the phenomena of Life.~ ~ ~
442 Paper |            most distant star.~A white piece of paper, completely white,~
443 Wait  |         self-recovery,~Has torn me to pieces...~Close the doors and windows.~
444 Obv   |           land.~Giant proportions and pitiful at the same time.~A ring
445 Mad   |          about Campari...~But I don't plan to die~                                    
446 Mire  |             they emerged from ancient plasma.~On the road, in the murk
447 Del   |      everything,~I sense the infinite pleasure~Of having in hand~My own
448 Exti  |               with your hands in your pockets you make fun of the others,~
449 Del   |               Shattered at my weakest point,~Alone and abandoned,~A
450 Wret  |             happen.)~Wretched notions~Poised in the air, beyond any relevance,~
451 Letter|           corners near the embassies,~Police - woodpeckers of a waning
452 Obv   |              manner of expression, of pollution,~Furtiveness, sophistry,
453 Mental|               open doors~(Çmendina me portë hapur)~You are going, you
454 Mire  |               forgotten, despised, or praised?~Their pride, their scorn,
455 Foe   |              Not what I hate,~My foe.~Precisely those ones~Whom we despised~
456 Del   |              only beauty the right~To pretend?~Why do you shun me, real
457 Obv   |               an accursed land.~Giant proportions and pitiful at the same
458 Mire  |               and storm,~Skulls which protrude from the skin,~Zygomatic
459 Foe   |            about ineptly,~Huffing and puffing~In ignorance,~Left their
460 Obv   |               of your whip you catch, pull in, entangle, ~Subdue,~With
461 Euro  |                stoic observation, the pulsing~Steam...~I feel no pity
462 Euro  |            and explode,~Depart...~Oh, purity of the East, fresh budding
463 Ques  |               question for comrade x~(Pyetje retorike shoqes)~You know
464 Obv   |            day you gamble some of the quality of a star, you wane in the
465 Ques  |                            Rhetorical question for comrade x~(Pyetje retorike
466 Euro  |           Europe~(Europë lindore)~Oh, race of the steers of passion~
467 Mire  |          metallic arms,~Those muscles radiating force and heat,~Those legs
468 Mire  |               written~In those hands.~Rain, the incessant deluge of
469 Euro  |                  and rules the world.~Raises and fells the musty forms~
470 Letter|              But causing my fall, not raising me at all.~Dear mother,
471 Mire  |                Perfect like miracles,~Rare, like them,~Young, so terribly
472 Exti  |           this means?~Remember how my ray~Shot into your sky like
473 Mire  |          Injured mouth, cracked lips, re-acquaintance, reseparation ,~"FAREWELL",
474 Del   |              word is this?~How did it reach me?~How did it come?~An
475 Letter|              Don't let anyone but you read this letter,~Not because
476 Wret  |             miserable and magnificent reason~That I no longer have senses.~ ~ ~
477 Mire  |             to perish.~Another day~Is reborn in the blind conviction
478 Euro  |          crucified cries in the empty recesses of my mind,~Oh, knives of
479 Out   |            Outside me~The whole world reels in battle and dream.~But
480 Mad   |             that Campari can be drunk~Refined with soda water and lemon?~
481 Mire  |              in arrogance,~As long as regents strive to mark our memories.~
482 Wret  |         Poised in the air, beyond any relevance,~For the miserable and magnificent
483 Mire  |               stars,~Oh, will they be remembered, forgotten, despised, or
484 Mire  |        cracked lips, re-acquaintance, reseparation ,~"FAREWELL", like a battered
485 Euro  |                Brain ringing, temples resounding,~Echoing within the skull,
486 Out   |               inside me too~Its voice resounds.~Outside me~They are loving,
487 Sense |           find no fulfilment.~Nothing responds to you, nothing belongs
488 Ques  |        question for comrade x~(Pyetje retorike shoqes)~You know well how
489 Ques  |                                       Rhetorical question for comrade x~(
490 Del   |       unexpected.~Has only beauty the right~To pretend?~Why do you shun
491 Obv   |           pitiful at the same time.~A ring in your ear - something
492 Euro  |            the blood of origin.~Brain ringing, temples resounding,~Echoing
493 Song  |             Song~(Këngë,)~Were you to rise~Not like a flower~But like
494 Mental|            stand me.~But such are the rites:~We never look each other
495 Mire  |           from ancient plasma.~On the road, in the murk of existence,
496 Letter|              houses,~The weary wintry roads,~A fifteen-storey building
497 Ques  |            pallor of your cheeks with rouge,~But how do you intend to
498 Euro  |           sings~                  and rules the world.~Raises and fells
499 Obv   |               a star, you wane in the sands,~Every night you gain some
500 Exti  |                         Remember.~The satisfaction of security has darkened