Coś Ty [English translation]

Come sit in my lap, darling

sophisticatedly I declaim

Time’s come of amorous harrow!

‘Oh, you!’ She only sighs… ‘Oh, you!’

(there’s a strand in ‘oh you’ wispy

with a joyous doubt

as if from a house kitty

I grew into a beastly cat).

Come, I’ll take you far away

under eyelids sempiternity,

Unbearable world muting!

‘Oh, you!’ She only sighs… ‘Oh, you!’

(there’s in ‘oh you’ a glove

thrown in the face of my psyche

and on her cheek a challenge

Such a claim requires backing!)

Don’t fool around with a fig leaf

my intentions are lucid,

heart true, aim not raunchy!

‘Oh, you!’ She only sighs… ‘Oh, you!’

(There’s in ‘oh you’ acquiescence,

with suggestion working charm,

that in aspiration and gratification

A dash of raunchy does no harm).

Lighter waddle through life’s abyss,

when darkness smile disperses

with covenant of lusts sublime!

‘Oh, you!’ She only sighs… ‘Oh, you!’

(There’s in ‘oh you’ a thread known

Trust blissful and carefreedom

for the epitome of lovers

life’s abyss a mere trifle!)

From a shark back to kitten

I say finally with satiation

It’ll make for stanzas dozen

‘Oh, you!’ She only sighs… ‘Oh, you!’

(There’s in ‘oh you’ understanding

of the taste that dries on lips,

leniency, a strobe of sadness

and mirror’s imperviousness).

She’s asleep, and I'm despairing:

‘oh you’ meanings so numerous

Inveterate uncertainty!

‘Oh, you!’ She whispers sleeping, ‘Oh, you!’

• Artist:Jacek Kaczmarski