What Is Happiness

Happiness is a moment of joy.
Joy is like a butterfly.
It cannot live in a cage.
You buy him a diamond cage.
Feed him the most beautiful lies
And he simply dies.
You bury him on the cemetery
of your illusions and dreams.
And then you realise
it was just a moment.

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A Date

Wait for me in the Street of Aged Lovers
At nine by our sign
You will recognise me easily
I will be wearing a sun ray coloured shirt
That is the colour of your shine

If I come first
I will recognise you even more easily
When you arrive, reality
Turns into a fairy tale

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Coincidence

Coincidence is:
When you are white and I am black,
When you are small and I am tall,
When you are young and I am old,
When you're beautiful and I am ugly.

But when you are next to me
Those are dangerous intentions.
It is best that all
This is left as
Sheer coincidence.

Translation by Tanja Bulovic

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The Queen

The French Queen
Offered cake to the hungry
Marie Antoinette

The English Queen
Lost her head for her King
Anne Boleyn

The Russian Queen with no children
Loved cats a lot
Catherine the Great

The Queen of Sidewalks
Fell asleep at work
City Whore

The Queen of Computers
Fell asleep at the keyboard
Her identity is protected

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Fotografija

fotografija

boze,
sta da napisem o tome.

to volim da radim,
ponekad od toga zivim.
kad u to gledam:
ponekad sam tuzan,
ponekad sam srecan.

drago lice
vidim kao da je tu.
ruzno,
okrenem, izbrisem
i kao da nije bilo tu.

to je magija
koja vjecno traje.

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Big Heart

He asks me
How to say 'big heart' in Hindi
I do not know
He asks me
How to say 'big heart' in Mandarin
I do not know
I ask him:
How do you know that someone
Has a big heart?
He does not know?
I do not know how to say 'big heart'
In Hindi or Mandarin
But he does not have a soul if he
Does not know who has a big heart

Translated from Serbian: Tanja Bulovic

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Good Morning, This Is Music Of Millions

Do not look for anything better.
Do not look for anything nicer.
We are enjoying the music of millions.
Millions of sighs are in us.
Millions of sweet pains in our stomachs.
Let us enjoy the music
whose sky does not have a limit.
Sky at the door of vice.
Sky after a sweet sin.
We are enjoying the music
which brings the morning.
Good morning, my dear.
This is Albinoni.
This is Adagio.

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Music of Angels

It is easy to be a river.
She has her bed and she flows.
She has her flow, beginning and end.

It is hard to be a volcano.
He's always making a new path,
flowing on a different road;
he lasts for a short while
but is remembered forever.
You are an eternal
and unrepeatable volcano.

Sleep, you princess of music.
You left us a voice of an angel.
The memory of you is eternal:
Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin.

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I Will Tell Them Everthing

If they ask me:
From where you are?
I will say: see,
Here is my star.

If they ask me:
Where are you going?
I will say:
To my home.

But
If anybody asks me:
Why i'm standing here;
I will say:
Why do you care,
This is my place
Under the sun,
Where my body
Makes shadow
To one that will

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Idealna Zena

Sahranicu te na Pere Lachaise
pored Preverta, zeno
trebalo je da budes lijepa
kao njegove pjesme o tebi

Sahranicu te na Pere Lachaise
pored Sopena, zeno
trebalo je da budes lijepa
kao njegova muzika o tebi

Sahranicu te na Pere Lachaise
pored heroja, zeno
trebalo je da budes hrabra
i umres kao heroj, zeno

Sahranicu te na Pere Lachaise
pored...
uostalom svejedno mi je
gdje cu te sahraniti
moja lijepa IDEALNA ZENO.

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