Translated by Dmitry Bosky


To cut out the country and its memory like an infected appendix

A pale scar a permanent bruise inescapable tie

Unbreakable indestructible my voice breaks as though I am

That note of unbearable sorrow

Not for the loss but because it was always so

Any words stopped as though with duct tape in a freezing house

A cruelty which has divided us into blood and tears

Which has turned our sight into a constant continuous witness.

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