Ivan Benak

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

Radio burza

Televizor „Grunding“ nudim

Radio market

Grunding TV on Offer

Televizor prodajem u boji,GRUNDING marke, čuveno je ime.Još antenu kupite za njega,pa da lijepo uživate s njime.

I'm selling a colour television set,a GRUNDING make, a name all people know.Just buy an aerial for it as well,and you'll enjoy it, watching every show.

Televizor radi kao novi.Pedeset pet je ekranu širina.Sve jezike ovog svijeta znade,mili, Bože, gledat ga milina.

The television works as good as new;the screen, from side to side, is fifty-five;it knows all languages the world can speak:dear God, to watch it makes you feel alive!

Lijep je ekran, još ljepša mu slika,tko ga kupi, to sve mora znati.Televizor ovaj u koloru,za pedeset eura ja ću ga dati.

Its screen is fine, its picture finer still;whoever buys it has to know all that.This television, all in colour, too,I'll let you have for fifty euros flat.

Na burzi me već odavno poznaju,trgovac sam preko burze stari.Eto, ljudi, toliko da znate,ja prodajem uvijek dobre stvari.

The Burza's known me well for many years;an old hand at its trading, truth be told;So there, good people, just so that you know:it's always good, fine things that I have sold.

Pa i ovaj televizor fini,za tu cijenu, koja puno znači.Na 6 5 2, osamsto dvadeset jedan,na tome broju možeš ga naći.

And this fine television, too, you'll getat such a price, a price that means a lot.At 6 5 2, eight hundred twenty-one,that is the number where it can be got.

Valpovo, 30. 01. 2007.

Valpovo, January 30, 2007

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 local radio, where he was a regular. "Grunding" is his spelling of Grundig; the phone number was his own.