POSTMODERN BALLADE


Gone for a few beers with my friends

after nine rounds we’d mastered

one spoke of all made well and good

and one of badly plastered.



By my right ear I took it in

by the left out I let it

feeling so far out of my depth

so’s not to have abetted.



The pub reeked of some steamy brew

some high-brow slick schlock mixer

where the young sagely dipped their heads

looking postmodernixered.



Opposite some bored pondering miss

sauce-stuffed her face with relish

and with her mouth still full, opined:

on life bedevilled, hellish.



It is, young miss, or maybe not

was my reply, swift, sporty

what on earth else could she expect

from a bloke just turned forty?



I see my life in crystal terms

like a well, appositely

drawn to the pub I take the plunge

and bottoms-up down sprightly



Thirst quenched by beer, my peckishness

fine weener-wurst assuages

smoke hangs here blue, and in the loo

the literary pages.


作者
Jiří Dědeček

译者
Václav Z J Pinkava

来源

https://www.vzjp.cz/basne.htm


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