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Angina Pektoris

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OriginalEnglish translation by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk (1993)
ANGINA PEKTORIS

Yarısı burdaysa kalbimin
yarısı Çin'dedir, doktor.
Sarınehre doğru akan
ordunun içindedir.
Sonra, her şafak vakti, doktor,
her şafak vakti kalbim
Yunanistan'da kurşuna diziliyor.
Sonra, bizim burda mahkûmlar uykuya varıp revirden el ayak çekilince
kalbim Çamlıca'da bir harap konaktadır
her gece, Doktor.
Sonra, şu on yıldan bu yana
benim fakir milletime ikrâm edebildiğim
Bir tek elmam var elimde, doktor,
Bir kırmızı elma:
kalbim...
Ne arteryo skleroz, ne nikotin, ne hapis,
işte bu yüzden, doktorcuğum, bu yüzden
bende bu angina pektoris...

Bakıyorum geceye demirlerden
ve iman tahtamın üstündeki baskıya rağmen
kalbim en uzak yıldızla birlikte çarpıyor...
ANGINA PECTORIS

If half my heart is here, doctor,
the other half is in China
with the army flowing
toward the Yellow River.
And, every morning, doctor,
every morning at sunrise my heart
is shot in Greece.
And every night,c doctor,
when the prisoners are asleep and the infirmary is deserted,
my heart stops at a run-down old house
in Istanbul.
And then after ten years
all i have to offer my poor people
is this apple in my hand, doctor,
one read apple:
my heart.
And that, doctor, that is the reason
for this angina pectoris--
not nicotine, prison, or arteriosclerosis.
I look at the night through the bars,
and despite the weight on my chest
my heart still beats with the most distant stars.




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