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Understimulated during lockdown, I've decided to once more pursue this half-baked idea I had in 2013 of translating poems from English b...

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Leather by John Donne

Just highlight this skin and mark it here
How can you be so humble to me?
He killed me and he cheated on you.
On this skin our two bloods are mixed;
You know it can't be said
Sin, or shame, or loss of a woman,
    But he was good before his war,
    And it was filled with the same blood, made into two,
    And this, sadly, is more than we can even imagine.

Wait, there are three people sitting on Kumar's skin,
Where it’s almost foreign, it’s bigger than your wedding.
You and I fly this, and here it is
We have a wedding bed and a wedding temple;
Parents complained, and you met,
It covers the living walls of the car.
    Although I was just killing myself,
    Don't do that, commit suicide,
    Holy, three sins of three murders.

Don't be as surprised as you used to be
Wash your nails in innocent blood?
This is the settlement of Kumara's sins.
If not, were you taken?
He is the winner, you are invited to do it
As you can see, I am not weak now;
    It's true; Then they will understand betrayal, it is terrible:
    According to the glory which thou hast given me
    Tired, because losing this solder has taken your life.


(Original found here.)

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