Chrysogonus' Translation #79 - from Claine Kelly's "She came to inform me of robbers"

Ia datang memberitahuku tentang perampok

seolah aku tidak tahu

walau aku telah berjalan melewati

toko-toko buku

dengan secangkir sakarin

merencanakan kejahatanku selanjutnya

katanya, ia telah mengikuti

selama aku berjalan lebih jauh

melewati penduduk setempat

menunggu Boori Ma

dan kuda-kuda tak bertali

dimulailah sekarang

“aku punya kemampuan

untuk mencinta”

kataku

“maka dari itu engkau

di sini, mengumpulkan sesuatu bagiku

Tapi kain perca ini sia-sia, kecuali

bagi binatang

pada kenyamanan mereka aku bergantung”

She came to inform me of robbers

as if I did not know

for I had walked by the

bookstores

with my cup of Sugarine

planning my next crime

she said she had followed

as I walked further

past the locals

waiting for Boori Ma

and the horses untethered

now it begins

"I have the power to

love"

I say

"and this is why you are

here, to collect something from me.

But this old rag is useless, save

for around animals,

on whose comfort I depend"