Georgi Gospodinov Poems

Is there anybody going to listen to my story

You lay the girl
who has laid her boy
who has laid the girl
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I won't be long, she said
and left the door ajar.
It was a special evening for us,
a rabbit stew was slowly cooking on the hob,
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It has rained outside
you walk out sluggish from sleep and
(on your way to the privy)
hrush
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Here November
is black with crows
unflustered waiting
not wanting anything
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2 packs thin ready-rolled pastry sheets
2 coffee cups butter melted
a kilogram of apples
1 cup biscuit crumbs
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She folds the paper and says:
did you read about the hail storm in Iowa:
pieces were as big as golf balls.
Well, he says, that is because
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1.
The fish of text (as well as the text of fish) should be consumed
after the spine and bones of the consonants have been removed.
Notice that with little children the first fishes (texts) are smooth
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I like a piece of tongue for supper
of the speechless kind
muscular and tough
the tongue of cow or bull or calf
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