Paul AUSTER

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In memory of myself


Simply to have stopped.

as if I could begin
where my voice has stopped, myself
the sound of a word

I cannot speak.

so much silence
to be brought to life
in this pensive flesh, the beating
drum of words
within, so many words

lost in the wide world
within me, and thereby to have known
that in spite of myself

I am here.

As if this were the world.








In mimoria di mè


Simpliciamenti, essa si fermu.

com’è se pudissi cumincià
indù s’hè ferma a me boci, ghje stessu
u sonu d’una parola

ch’ùn possu dì.

tantu silenziu
da purtà in vita
in sta carri pinsosa, battenti
tamburu di paroli
drintu, tanti paroli

persi in l’immensu mondu,
drintu à mè, è sapiutu cussì
che malgradu me stessu

socu qui.

Com’è se tal' fussi u mondu.


in --- Facing the Music --- ed. Station Hill --- 1980


trad. Stefanu Cesari


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