Translated by Rhys Allan. Read and edited by Robin Ouzman Hislop
[And the vintage in the clay pots is abundant]
TELL ME MY LOVE if naked we arrive and naked we depart
our parts covered with nothing but our hands
like wafers, for dessert or communion, crumbling to pieces
one hand as a fig leaf
and the other behind our non-existing swiss accounts
nor anywhere else in fact
if our nakedness is a source of greater virtue
if so much nakedness is a great sauce for our virtue
let me give you a traditional recipe
just in case
Ingredients:
10 pieces of voyeur, of 100 gram each
1 can of conscious breathing
1 litre of road level curves
10 crystal clear waters
8 tablespoons of very cold air
100 grams of foal’s mane and/or a lady’s locks
1 pinch of wildflowers
Cooking instructions:
1. Bring the voyeur to the boil and chop it paying attention to the waistline.
2. Pour the crystal clear waters into the very cold air together with the conscious breathing. After a few minutes stir the voyeur into the concoction.
3. Continue by frying the road level curves and leave to simmer on a high heat for the length of a sigh.
4. Before serving in a clay dish, reheat for 10 nights, gradually adding the foal’s mane and/or lady’s locks. Wildflowers to taste.
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[Y la vendimia en las tinajas rica]
dime novio mío si desnudos llegamos y desnudos nos iremos
con una mano delante y otra atrás
cual hostias cual obleas desmenuzándose
una mano hoja de parra
y otra tras nuestras no-cuentas en suiza
ni en ningún otro sitio en realidad
si esta desnudez ensalza nuestra virtud
si tanta desnudez en salsa nuestra virtú
te doy una receta típica
por si las moscas
Ingredientes:
10 trozos de voyeur de 100 gramos cada uno
1 lata de respiración consciente
1 litro de curvas a nivel
10 aguas claras cristalinas
8 cucharadas de aire muy frío
100 gramos de crin de potro y/o cabellera de mujer
1 pizca de florecillas silvestres
Preparación:
1. Dar un hervor al voyeur y desmenuzarlo prestando atención al talle.
2. Verter en aire muy frío las aguas claras cristalinas junto a la res-
piración consciente. Tras unos minutos incorporar el voyeur y re-
moverlo.
3. Freír seguidamente las curvas a nivel y dejar todo tapado a fuego
veloz el tiempo de un suspiro.
4. Antes de presentar en cazuela de barro, se recalienta en 10 noches
y se va añadiendo crin de potro y/o cabellera de mujer. Florecillas
Translated by Nitya Raghava (UCL – University College London) and read by Julia Behan (University of Leeds)
Vijaya Nagaram Ghat
Clothes set out to dry on the ground, the steps, the railing which climbs up towards the city. Saris covering the dense dust of the banks. Lungis and shirts floating in the breeze on improvised ropes hung between two poles. Clothes stripped of their owners, emptied out, moulds for the spirits, aired out to vanish malevolent forces and to imbibe the forces of the sun and of the gods again, who, invoked, walk in broad daylight through the ghats.
Vijaya Nagaram Ghat
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Ropa puesta a secar sobre la tierra, los escalones, la baranda que sube hacia la ciudad. Saris cubriendo el polvo compacto de la ribera. Lungis y camisas flotando al viento en improvisadas cuerdas tendidas entre dos palos. Ropa desprovista de sus dueños, vaciada, moldes para los espíritus, aireados para que se evaporen las fuerzas malignas y recuperen las del sol y las de los dioses que, invocados, andan de día por los ghats.
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