<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336014" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Headless Bird</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">According to custom, the old people have shut me away<br>Not to scare me stupid when they killed the bird,<br>And I am listening by the bolted door<br>To the trampling and the struggle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I twist the lock time has worn thin<br>To forget what I have heard, to get away<br>From this struggle where<br>The body races after the head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I jump when the eyes, thick with fear<br>Turn backwards, turn white,<br>They look like grains of maize,<br>The others come and peck at them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I take the head in one hand, the rest in the other,<br>And when the weight grows too much I switch them<br>around<br>Until they are dead, so they are still connected<br>At least in this way, through my body.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the head dies sooner,<br>As if the cut had not been properly done,<br>And so that the body does not struggle alone<br>I wait for death to reach it passing through me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ileana+M%C4%83l%C4%83ncioiu">Ileana Mălăncioiu</a>, translated by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336014" data-title="The Headless Bird de Ileana Mălăncioiu" data-description="According to custom, the old people have shut me away/Not to scare me stupid when they killed the bird,/And I am listening by the bolted door/To the trampling and the struggle./I twist the lock time has worn thin/To forget what I have heard, to ge..."></div> </div> </div>

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