Thing
- "Prices slashed. Come on!"
From behind the stall the man was shouting.
On the stall he had laid out
a handful of scrap "things":
two thighs and a neck,
feet,
a head, shaved, with open eyes;
kidneys, liver,
and a small heart,
cut into strips
and under each "thing"
from the places of its veins
blood was silently dripping.
From behind the stall a sigh cries out
a "thing" without eyes,
a "thing" without feet,
a "thing" without a heart...
Machine translation from the Persian
Original Persian
چیز
Sunlight, Moonlight
- "آتش زدم . بیا !"
از پشت دکه مرد فریاد می کشید .
بر دکه چیده بود
یک مشت خرده "چیز" :
دو ران و یک گردن ،
پا ،
سر ، تراشیده با چشم های باز ؛
قلوه ، جگر ،
و یک دل کوچک ،
که شرحه شرحه بود
و زیر هر "چیز "
از جای رگ هاش
خاموش خون می ریخت .
از پشت دکه آه فریاد می کشد
"چیز" ی بدون چشم ،
"چیز" ی بدون پا ،
"چیز" ی بدون قلب ...