Rasprodaja

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

Clearance Sale

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

Evo mene, ja se javljam,u studiju sve pozdravljam.Oglase sam prije dao,preko burze sve prodao.Nema ljepše emisije,na radiju Valpovštine.Sve konkretno tu se vodi,snađu se u svakoj zgodi.Prodaja je tu posrijedi,daj šta daš, tu zakon vrijedi.Rasprodaju vršim sada,za sto kuna od komada.Uskoro će doći zima,dobra peć kod mene ima,za nju dajem garancije,na lož ulje ona grije.Da ne pričam sada dulje,tri bureta za lož ulje,ostalo mi da prodajem,za sto kuna sva tri dajem.Hajde, drage mušterije,javite se, tko će prije!Moj brzoglas bit će vrijedan.Nazovite na: šest, pet, dva,osamsto dvadeset jedan.

Here I am, I'm calling through,greetings to the studio crew!Once before I placed my ad,sold through Burza all I had.There's no programme half as fairas Valpovština's on the air.All is run here straight and true,every case, they know what to do.Selling's what it's all about:"pay what you like" is law, no doubt.Clearance sale is on today:a hundred kuna each to pay.Winter's coming very soon;I've a good stove, what a boon!I will guarantee it, too:heating oil will warm you through.Not to spin this out too long:three oil barrels, good and strong,that is what I've left to shift:all three for a hundred, a gift!Customers, dear, here's your cue:who'll be first? Could it be you?My swift-voice will get things done.Ring me, please, on: six, five, two,eight hundred twenty-one.

Valpovo, 09.10. 2000.

Valpovo, October 9, 2000

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, the swap-and-sell show on the radio of Valpovština, the Valpovo district. For the telephone he uses brzoglas ("swift-voice"), an old purist Croatian word, in jest.