Anny Ballardini - Someone else

I woke up this morning
and they had stolen my car
my house my bed my eyes
my mind my family my fate
my job my friends

left there on the scorching ground

I went downtown and got a plastic heart
a couple of colored marbles for my eyes
green rubber gloves for hands a bouquet
of narcissi for my hair – red and blue
crisscrossed ribbons to let them know I
was the queen & gathered my army shining
in the foggy stench of the melting highway

this till the end of the day

without a bed I went to sleep
& on the following morning
I was someone else.

Ramona Zamfirescu - O alta persoana

Cand m-am trezit de dimineata
imi furasera masina
casa patul ochii
mintea familia soarta
slujba prietenii

m-au abandonat acolo pe pamantul fierbinte

M-am dus in oras si mi-am luat o inima de plastic
doua bucatele de marmura colorata in loc de ochi
o pereche de manusi verzi din cauciuc in loc de maini un buchet
de narcise sa-mi tina loc de par -- panglici in dungi
rosii si albastre ca sa vada ei ca eu
sunt o regina si mi-am adunat armata care stralucea
in duhoarea aburinda a autostrazii care se topea

iar asta pana la sfarsitul zilei

si uite-asa m-am dus la culcare fara niciun pat
iar in dimineata urmatoare
cand m-am trezit, eram o alta persoana.