4 Grzegorz Wróblewski Translations by Adam Zdrodowski and Ben Borek

By , and | 1 September 2024

The following translations were first published in March 2024 in the online chapbook The Life of a Tenement House. They are reproduced with permission from Half Day Moon Press.

The Man Who Never Ate Tomatoes

The man who never ate tomatoes
looked like a postman or a used
car seller.

He died the day before yesterday
at the age of 84.

His favourite conductor was James Conlon.
During a storm he always wore a warm
scarf.

He had a wife, of medium height and build.
Throughout her life she worked
at a toy shop.

Their only daughter, Lise, works at a bowling alley
on the outskirts of Copenhagen.

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