SAID MUGANLI

From JAIL POEMS – YOUR NAME IS FREEDOM
TRANSLATED BY ZIBA KARBASSI CRISTINA VITI
voice by cristina viti

1.

The walls standing face to face tonight
The walls can talk tonight the walls can
Look one another in the eye tonight
Tonight I’m in with these walls


2.

Love my love is suicide itself
Love my love is suicide itself
A dandelion blown blind its
ice eyes burnt out by the sun
Love my love is more than
come let‘s love each other
For me for you for all of us
Love is revolution itself

I am
............in love

I am
...........in jail


3.

I snatched a pinch at the moon’s cheek
Grabbed a handful of hair off the sun
Empty of hate
till love rushed full inside me
I didn’t become a man
I became a poet
Watch me run rings
around god
in the sky


4.

Who will be my guest tonight
Water in a plastic jar – my thirst
Sugar cubes in a shampoo bottle
A box of rusks to eat O mother
Caw of crows overhead caw caw caw
Bring me an ounce – a little ounce of sky
Who’s coming to my party tonight
Who will be my guest tonight
Who
............my
.................... guest

In my dreams someone is standing
someone’s saying hallo

Whoever comes to my dreams tonight had
better watch out, they’re standing at the door

Who’s this says hallo
Hallo to who
Who’s this with water
Who’s this with tea
Who’s this with bread
I’ll have none of that I
Am On Strike

Like it or not

One hallo that’s all I need
One sky
Who will give her heart to me
When I’ve left my heart
In Emamyie graveyard when I have
Forgotten all about it
Who will feel for me so much that
morning will break open
Who will be my guest tonight
In this cell
The thump-thump of my heartbeat
In this black&blue night
Who’s going to caw caw caw
snow
..........snow
.....................crow
..................................crow