POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE

A.E. BACONSKY

 

Ars Antipoetica

 

To write with sawdust to write with scrap iron

with plexiglass pieces with concrete objects

to write on the empty boxes in which electric devices

are packed, on worn-out recording tapes

to write a spectrum with the modulator sounds

set on metallic screens – unrhymed, to write unrhymed

poems meant for consumption bearing the series

the year and the trademark, perfectly functional poems

which are not read but consumed daily,

abcdefghijklmnopq poems and so on,

and-so-on poems, poems in U and O

of galvanized iron fixed on a tubular prop

while the kinetic mechanism measures the effect

of the stainless consonants and switches over the rhythm –

to write with spare parts and with documentary literature

enclosed in fashionable plastic envelopes to write

not to write to reproduce to be reproduced experimen-

THALIA the muse of the altar-crematoriums where

the modern industry residues are burnt, is dancing

with the pneumatic poet

her last dance.

 

(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)