Ivan Benak

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

Radio burza

Kupio bih prase

Radio market

I'd Buy a Pig

Jedno prase kupio bih za se,otprilike sto pedeset kila.Ako može klanje i čupanje,ta usluga potrebna bi bila.

I'd like to buy a pig to call my own,some hundred fifty kilos, more or less;if someone does the slaughter and the scraping,I'd need that service, too, I must confess.

Neka bude mesnato, ne masno,bez TRIHINELE, to je valjda jasno,da sve sredim dok još nije kasno,da u zimi objedujem slasno.

Let it be meaty, not too fat, I pray,no TRICHINELLA, that I needn't say,so I can sort it all without delay,and dine on tasty fare each winter's day.

Kad bih takvu ja osobu znao,svoj brzoglas odmah bi mu dao.652 - osamsto dvadeset jedan,da taj poslić sredim ovaj tjedan.

If I should find someone to fill this need,I'd give him my phone number with all speed:652 - eight hundred twenty-one,so this week's little job gets quickly done.

Valpovo, 29.01. 2001.

Valpovo, January 29, 2001

Telefonski broj iz pjesme više nije u upotrebi.

The phone number in this poem is no longer in use.

Translator's note. A Radio burza "wanted" ad. Trichinella is the parasite every slaughtered pig must be tested for.