PLANETARISM

KIRO URDIN WALLS

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Translation into English

Marija Jones
 I am surrounded by walls
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for each of them I am the exit door.
 Time cures everything
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except for death.
A general cosmic rule:
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the stars are spots.
 One page of love
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several life-long novels.
 Let us synchronize our mistakes
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so that we can repeat them in stereo.
 Freedom of the written word!
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Even when it is crossed.
 Every mountain has a peak
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and every peak has its highest point.
 Dont get bored when alone
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you are inhabited by several people.
Focus on a single dot if it is
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your universe.
 Be practical in sex,
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it is not a one-act play.
 One big mistake,
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several years of consequences.
 In your environment everyone is a graduate,
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while in mine only a few are learned.
The crossword you need to solve
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is a straight line.
 Only one of us is right
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even though we are making the same mistake.
Just continue if there is no next time
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to start anew.
 I will grow root hair
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in your root.
 Wild animals will soon become birds
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they are left with no ground to stand on.
 I attend courses in several languages.
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I want to be a polyglot when I argue.
Love is a drug to which I am
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addicted.
 He works full speed
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the machine within him has decided so.
 When someones character varies,
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the times change at a much faster pace.
 Love people in them resides the man
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who lives inside you.
If I hadnt tripped, I wouldnt have established
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close contact with the earth.
 Art is in the nuances;
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the colours are uniform.
A woman can be either a wall or a mountain: when she refuses you
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is the first and when she loves you is the second.
 Better poor in an open space
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than rich in a tunnel of gold.
One more moment and I will harden
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like concrete in your wall.
 In the Stone Age we used fire to warm ourselves up;
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in the time of floods we use steam.
Speak directly with your eyes and indirectly
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with your soul.
 The night is pregnant,
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an unfaithful woman was told by the prophet Vangja.
 You are of the same opinion,
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while I am of the right opinion.
 Win with grace
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the victory lasts longer.
 If men are lords of the world,
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then women are goddesses above it.
 Wherever I get to is
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my limit.
Flee from the average women and average men
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they are the governing majority.
 If all around me are enemies,
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that makes me one too.
 I travel incessantly,
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so I die everywhere a little.
 The spaceship crashed,
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but the robot steering it survived.
 I will close my eyes
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to make the night fall quicker.
 Think twice if the entire procession behind the deceased
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is in tears.
Hold the word you
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cant keep.
 Stone under stone foundation,
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stone on top of stone wall.
If the first move means victory,
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then it is equal to defeat.
 The wall went black
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when the night propped itself against it.
The shadow that moves is the street thats empty
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love has just died on it.
 We suffocated the rebellion with poison gas,
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but we will cure it with environmentally friendly scents.
Wishes and democracy are very similar:
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you can always have more of them.
 The future name of planet Earth
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will be planet Concrete.
The applauses for the superior mean we are
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faithful to him.
 Fateful decisions are made when we hit the bottom.
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The moment we can see the horizon, life becomes a perspective.
Only for spouses who have remained friends after their divorce
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can we say that they had a successful marriage.
 Dont take success for granted
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it is not perfect.
 An iron word
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can open a steel door.
 The best way to test how brave a ruler is
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is to have him go among his people without bodyguards.
 I will add a wall
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to enhance the barrier.
 I will sign below your text
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if it contains less mistakes than mine.
 My mouth feels bitter
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my thought must be medicinal.
 I will pay attention to you if you are
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not indifferent.
The staple diet of humans is air and water;
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everything else is luxury.
 I rubbed out some space so that I could
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reach you faster.
The man who ran all his life became a bird and then
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continued running over the clouds.
 Jump over the barrier you cannot
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demolish.
There is nowhere to go because there
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is nowhere to arrive.
 Continue smiling,
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even when they take you for the court jester.
 The train has just arrived at the station,
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a different station for each of its passengers.
 You can see the perspective from afar,
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but you can check its reality from up close.
A drop of discord spilled
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into an ocean of bile.
 Shall I go down on my knees or
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just bow my head?
Is there a sentence in which the words do not contradict
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each other? If there is, then it is a bad sentence.
 It is the interest that determines what happens to the ground
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if it doesnt cause earthquakes, therell be tremors.
If the casino is your only chance,
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play another card.
 Between the smile and laughter lies
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the nuance of the spirit.
If you have nothing to do, start thinking
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why it is so.
 I will roll my memories into a cigarette;
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if its smoke reaches you it will be a cloud with no raindrops.
 The Earth
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a planet that spins to its end.
 One can become immortal
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with a single oustanding thought.
 All armies are defensive,
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that is to say no one has attacked anyone to date.
 The Achilles heel of the atomic bomb is that
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it cannot be used domestically.
I will go away on a holiday in an exotic country,
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I want to be bored imaginatively.
 When one starts hating oneself,
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one has understood why it is so.
Even if the man became invisible,
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his sworn enemy would see him.
 I do want to adapt to my environment,
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but it is far removed from me.
Wealth and stress are two parallel lines
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that often converge.
 Do not kill the lion the commercial power
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of many companies depends on its name.
 I havent got the money to buy anything
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but I have enough to buy what I dont need.
 Great fame blindness,
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life-long anonymity darkness.
Those who praise you indiscriminately will deprive you
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of something in the same manner.
 I turned your absence into capital,
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while you turned my presence into investment.
Religion teaches us to believe in God,
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and He teaches us to believe in man.
 The highest tax a man can pay
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is the time he has lost.
Some things we know and some things go without saying,
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while life offers us some ready-made.
 Businessmen: beware of the people coming out
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on a dead-end street.
 I was left stripped to a bikini by my debts,
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but now they wont let me inside the bank so improperly dressed.
 If one experienced what one wanted the very same way one
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wanted it, fate would have made a wrong move.
The man who changes instantly has long been undergoing
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metamorphosis beneath his skin.
 The woman who loves you will follow you,
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but it is her shadow that follows her.
There is nowhere to run they have placed me
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in the centre of a powerful magnetic field.
 When I was so-and-so I was nothing;
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now when I am nothing I am so-and-so.
 The learned will make the world fall
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and the illiterate will make it hit the bottom.
 Between the first and the last letter
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is the universe of language.
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821.163.3-84
URDIN, Kiro
Walls / Kiro Urdin; [translation into English Maria Jones].
Skopje: Magor, 2015. 104 .; 14x5 . (Planetarism)
ISBN 978-608-223-440-3
COBISS.MK-ID 98767114
 KIRO URDIN WALLS
MAGOR LTD Skopje
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Translation into English: Marija Jones Proofreading: Matthew Jones
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