3/30/2008

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The Wall of Love

Was it you or your loneliness

In the blind dark we opened bleary eyes

Last night's curses on our lips

We would frequent art-lesbian-lovers,

Galleries and public places

My daily care was to remove you into the midst of men

An ammoniac flower in your button hole

My loneliness my incontinent countess

The lower we sink the better

We loitered in the pubs at Kumkapğ

With beanstew, beer and wine before us

And police battalions behind us; in the mornings

My Guardian Saints would find my carcass in the gutters

Hot as the garbage-collecfors' hands,

With their hands I caressed you.

My loneliness my bristle-haired beauty,

The higher we stink the better

I looked in the sky a red flash a plane

Steel and stars and human beings galore

One night we leapt the Wall of love

Where I fell was so clear so open

You and the universe at my side.

Uncountable my deaths, their resurrections.

O loneliness my many songs

The more we can live without lies the better.


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Translated by Ruth Christie

Sevgi Duvarı

Sen miydin o yalnızlığım mıydı yoksa

Kör karanlıkta açardık paslı gözlerimizi

Dilimizde akşamdan kalma bir küfür

Salonlar piyasalar sanat sevicileri

Derdim günüm insan arasına çıkarmaktı seni

Yakanda bir amonyak çiçeği

Yalnızlığım benim sidikli kontesim

Ne kadar rezil olursak o kadar iyi

Kumkapı meyhanelerine dadandık

Önümüzde Altınbaş, Altın Zincir, fasulye pilakisi

Ardımızda görevliler, ekipler, Hızır Paşalar

Sabahları açıklarda bulurlardı leşimi

Öyle sıcaktı ki çöpcülerin elleri

Çöpcülerin elleriyle okşardım seni

Yalnızlığım benim süpürge saçlım

Ne kadar kötü kokarsak o kadar iyi

Baktım gökte bir kırmızı bir uçak

Bol çelik bol yıldız bol insan

Bir gece Sevgi Duvarını aştık

Dustuğum yer öyle açık seçik ki

Başucumda bi sen varsın bi de evren

Saymıyorum ölüp ölüp dirilttiklerimi

Yalnızlığım benim çoğul türkülerim

Ne kadar yalansız yaşarsak o kadar iyi

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N.B.: Please do not get me wrong, the weather is getting cold in New York these days and I could not resist to share some of my summer photos. (maybe it will warm up your days a little) The windy NY photos will follow up soon.

Lutfen yanlis anlama olmasin, bu gunlerde New York sogumaya basladi, bu yuzden yazin cektigim bazi resimleri paylasmadan duramadim (belki iciniz isinir bu sayede). Ruzgarli NY resimlerini pek yakinda yayinlayacagim.

2 comments:

  1. iyi bayramlar sana da muhtarcim : )

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  2. Anonymous10/01/2008

    Recently an insurance company nearly wind up....

    A bank is nearly bankrupt......

    How it affect you? Did you buy insurance? Did you buy mini note or bonds?

    Who fault?


    The top management of the Public listed company ( belong to "public" ) salary should be tied a portion of it to the shares price ( IPO or ave 5 years ).... so when the shares price drop, it don't just penalise the investors, but those who don't take care of the company.....If this rule is pass on, without any need of further regulation, all industries ( as long as it is public listed ) will be self regulated......



    Sign a petition to your favourite president candidate, congress member again and ask for their views to comment on this, and what regulations they are going to raise for implementation.....If you agree on my point, please share with many people as possible....


    http://remindmyselfinstock.blogspot.com/

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