Michał Zabłocki – poetry

poem: MichaŁ ZabŁocki

ONE RUSSIAN WARSHIP

sailing and sailing for very many years our good big brother, the best of all our friends people are looking and waving hands at him may he stay far out and never enter in

from land to land now, across so many seas sailing and sailing until it’s near our place! through the loudhailer they’re shouting on and on hello there! wake up! your time has also come!

one Russian warship will do with super heroes aboard one Russian warship will do give in or we’ll take a shot!

how can it be then, we’re crying bitter tears! it can’t be dreamt of in all our wildest dreams! some white flags flying, you see them flapping white I know this feeling, I know it inside out!

we’ve feared too long now to send that warship down because it should have been sunk so long ago! before it’s shooting to kill just all of us people will surely surrender many times

one Russian warship will sink let’s start the fight and do well one Russian warship will sink one shot and… go fuck yourself!