4 Grzegorz Wróblewski Translations by Adam Zdrodowski and Ben Borek

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A Drunk Sage Remembering the Good Old Days

Intelligent people never
get bored.
I’ve always fallen asleep right after
sunset.

Where have all the sellers
of wicker baskets and
flypaper gone?
I had two fine horses,

and then I was left with a cat.
I wanted to become
a fire eater or a strongman
in an itinerant circus.

But I needed to survive my son-in-law and two
boring wars.
I miss village idiots
in poorly cut suits.

Does anyone still collect rags
and empty jars? All of this is
history… Soon I’ll be an authority
in the great beyond.

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