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в ожидании смерти
словно кошки
что запрыгнет
на кровать

мне так жалко
жену

она увидит это
твёрдое
белое
тело
потрясёт его, затем
возможно
снова

"Хэнк!"

Хэнк не
ответит.

не смерть моя
меня тревожит, но жена
остающаяся с
грудой
пустоты.

я хочу
всё же
дать ей понять
что в те ночи
когда мы спали
рядом

даже глупейшие
споры
были
прекрасны

и жестокие
слова
что я всегда боялся
сказать
уже можно
произнести:

я люблю
тебя.


Charles Bukowski. Confession

waiting for a death
like a cat
that will jump
on the bed

I am so very sorry for
my wife

she will see this
stiff
white
body
shake it once, then
maybe
again

"Hank!"

Hank wont't
answer.

it's not my death that
worries me, it's my wife
left with this
pile of
nothing.

I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.

Date: 2009-06-15 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wytchcroft.livejournal.com
it's funny, i've never made up my mind about Bukowski - he wrote so much! but seeing the pieces here, rather than many at once in a book, well, it's very pleasant:))

Date: 2009-06-15 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-stapleton.livejournal.com
well, maybe it's just the choice itself. i cannot say i like all of him, far from it. but some pieces tuned very accurately into my own world, and i really love to translate it :)
thanks again for your attention! :)

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