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EDITORIAL
VOICES OF ROMANIA
Marin Sorescu
Florenta Albu
Ana Blandiana
Sanda Stolojan
Mircea Dinescu
Ion Caraion
Rodica Iulian
DRIED REINDEER MEAT
TALES OF MAJORCAN PIRACY
JONATHAN AND THE WOLF IN THE FRIDGE
LAF IN HELSINKI
SCRITTURE GIOVANNI

Ladder to Heaven Marin Sorescu
The Case Marin Sorescu
Shakespeare Created the World Marin Sorescu
Superstition, Marin Sorescu
Paintings Marin Sorescu
Fresco Marin Sorescu

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Marin Sorescu

Superstition

by Marin Sorescu. Translated by Constantin Roman.
My cat is washing herself
With the left paw
We shall have another war

For I notice
Whenever she washes
With her left paw
International tension grows
Considerably

How can she see
The five continents?
Maybe in her eyes
The pythoness moves
Who knows by heart
All the world's unpuntuated history.

I feel like crying
When I think that both I
And the heaven of souls bundled
On my back
Should depend in the last instance
On a capricious cat

Go and catch mice
Never again unleash
World wars
Fuck off
You bitch.

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