Ovaj puta sudoper prodajem

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

This Time I'm Selling a Sink

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

Ja sudoper od rostfraja imam,bez ormara, samo gornji dio,sa dv'je kade bez cijeđenja suda,a nekad je sa ormarom bio.

I've got a sink of stainless steel to sell,no cabinet, just the upper part alone,with basins two, but with no draining board;it used to have a cabinet of its own.

Kupio sam drugačiji sada,pa mi stari stoji u garaži.Preko burze sada oglas dajem,možda netko baš ovakav traži.

I've bought myself a different one, and sothe old one's in the garage, standing there.Now through the Burza I put out my ad:perhaps somebody wants just this, somewhere.

Pedesetak eura on vrijedi,k'o brat bratu to morate znati,kako meni on više ne treba,za dvjesto ću kunića ga dati.

It's worth some fifty euros, give or take,as brother unto brother, you should know;but since I have no further need of it,for just two hundred kuna it will go.

Čekam poziv ja svakoga dana.Moj brzoglas već pripravan stoji:652 - osamsto dvadeset jedan,baš toliko on znamenki broji.

I'm waiting for your call, day after day.My trusty phone stands ready, as before:652 - eight hundred twenty-one,that's just how many digits it has in store.

Valpovo, 16. 12. 2002.

Valpovo, December 16, 2002

Telefonski broj iz pjesme više nije u upotrebi.

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

Translator's note. A verse ad for Radio burza. For the telephone he uses brzoglas ("swift-voice"), an old purist Croatian word, in jest.