Istanbul Literary Review - May 2010 Edition (#17)
Istanbul Literary Review - May 2010 Edition (#17)
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Knight Without Fame and Shame
by
Agda Bavi Pain
Translated
by
Martin Solotruk & Tony Gaal

your odessey
ends here and now / comely cosmonaut / a king in spandex armour / with hair highlights down to the waist / and cults damned close to the earth / / you see all the shames / in the starway veil / plus a fixed point in the very end / take your pick so take your pick / you the hero you / a knight or whatever you are / here is the end of your immortality / / shut up your eyes and sleep / good knight

shame1: wishing hell
her name is the destiny. / of all cosmonauts / their wives cheat on them with fat dragons / badly octogod // this is why they leave in flocks / rushing into the deep of the night / so that no one would return alive / media dead // but you can get different shames as well / waiting for you to come back / home / bloody night / like executioner / quietly they seat / watching you eating / they think for themselves

shame3
the knight would just say / my graceful / my beauty lactic galactic / my blood and milk and honey / if i can just for a second / lie down with you /// instantly you would spread / impress / as deboned earth my empress / shame anna domina / with my male i on the submissive side

swallowing voice
[or better] waiting for sight / time to pay / with truth / poison on the tongue / glowing togs // eye in the skull / [blank shot] / magic bullet in the forehead / [funnel in the throat] / wild johnny // [so] when your last bit / of saliva dries / shut / your voice and [for once] / beep

 

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Istanbul Literary Review - May 2010 Edition (#17)
Agda Bavi Pain
Agda Bavi Pain
USA & Trieste
Agda Bavi Pain is a Controversial writer, poet and TV/movie scriptwriter with a Turkish origin living in Kosice, Slovakia. He is author of poetry book “Skin & Bones” (Kost & Koza, 2002) and novel “The End Of The World” (Koniec sveta, 2006) which won international literary award Bank Austria Literaris 2008 among 800 books from Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Enclosed poems are taken from his forthcoming poetry book “Knight Without Fame And Shame”.
Istanbul Literary Review - May 2010 Edition (#17)