Ivan Benak

pučki pjesnik · folk poet  ·  Sopje 1933. – Valpovo 2015.Sopje 1933 – Valpovo 2015

Radio burza

Auto snova, a malena lova

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

Radio market

A Dream Car for a Little Cash

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

Renol 4 T L, smeđe boje,prod'o bih ga, radosti mi moje.Sedamdeset i osme je rođen,samo od dva vozača je vožen.Da vam kažem iskreno po duši,od njih dvoje ni jedan ne puši.Ne zna što su oluje, nevere,u garaži bio u to vrijeme.Tome autu ništa i ne fali,treba samo jedan pregled mali.Bateriju još dodajte njemui ostalu koju treba spremu.Pa bi mogli na tehnički ićii tablice za njega podići.Pet stotina eura se traži,po vrijednosti on još više važi.Njegov motor kao mačor prede,od te cijene, više gume vrijede.Tu se traži neka sitna lova,da imate svoj auto iz snova.Eto ljudi, to je zgoda prava,da imate auto zabadava.Nema love, a dijelovi skupi,možda netko za rezervu kupi.Nije meni samo da se proda,već da drugi pješice ne hoda.

A Renol 4 T L, in brown so fine,I'd sell it, oh, you dearest joy of mine!It came into the world in seventy-eight,and only two have driven it to date.I'll tell you honestly, and it's no joke:of those two drivers, neither likes to smoke.It's never known what storms and tempests are:it sat them out in its garage, this car.This car is lacking nothing, none at all;it only needs a check-up, something small.Just add a battery, then fit it outwith other gear that it has gone without.Then you could take it to the testing stationand get the plates for its registration.Five hundred euro is the price I name;it's worth still more, and that's no idle claim.Its engine purrs as sweetly as a cat;the tyres alone are worth much more than that!A little cash is all it takes, it seems,for you to have the motor of your dreams.So there, good people, here's a chance that's real:to get a car for nothing, what a deal!Now cash is short, and spare parts cost a lot;someone might buy it just for spares, why not?It's not the sale alone I'm hoping for,but that another man need walk no more.

Valpovo, 29. 07. 2001.

Valpovo, July 29, 2001

Translator's note. One of his verse ads for "Radio burza", the swap-and-sell show on the local radio. "Renol" is his spelling of Renault, as it is pronounced in Croatian; the Renault 4 was a common family car in the old Yugoslavia.