OTROK II
Boga sovraži.
Če bi imel bog tarčo
sredi čela, bi ga zadela
z eno roko in odpihnila
dim s cevi na pištoli.
To se ji ne bi smelo zgoditi,
to ve vsak otrok,
a se je zgodilo in se dogaja
še drugim kar naprej in naprej.
Zato naj ji nihče ne reče,
da je karkoli urejeno,
da je karkoli na svojem mestu
in smiselno, ker ni,
in to lahko vidi vsak otrok.
Ko bi bile izvzete
vsaj živali ali vsaj drevesa,
vsaj moški ali ženske,
ali starci, ko je koža tanka.
Vsaj otroci, vsaj mali.
Bila je njena izbira.
Lahko bi sovražila ljudi
in bi ostala sama na svetu,
toda taka, brezbožna,
vseeno ne more med njih.
ICHILD II
She hates God
If God had a target
in the middle of his forehead,
she would hit him with one hand
and blow on the smoking barrel.
This should not happen to her.
Every child knows it.
But it has, and it keeps happening
to others, again and again.
So let no one tell her
that anything is in order,
that anything has its place
or makes sense, because it doesn’t.
Every child can see that.
If only animals, or trees,
or men and women, or the old,
with paper-thin skin, were spared.
At least the children,
at least the little ones.
It was her choice.
She could hate people
and remain alone in the world,
but like this, godless,
she can't be among them, after all.
(Translated from the Slovenian by Martha Kosir)
