Vasko Popa – Proud Error
Submitted by anyman on August 17, 2008 – 6:46 amNo Comment
Once upon a time there was an error
So ridiculous so minute
No one could have paid attention to it
It couldn’t stand
To see or hear itself
It made up all sorts of nonsense
Just to prove
That it really didn’t exist
It imagined a space
To fit all its proofs in
And time to guard its proofs
And the world to witness them
All that it imagined
Was not so ridiculous
Or so minute
But was of course in error
Was anything else possible
“Proud Error” from Homage to the Lame Wolf by Vasko Popa, translated by Charles Simic, 1987, Oberlin College Press. Copyright © 1987, Oberlin College Press.
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