Ἀσήμαντος ἀνθρωπάκος μέσα στὸ πλῆθος
Τώρα πιὰ δὲ χειροκροτεῖ δὲ χειροκροτεῖται
Ξένος περιφέρεται στῶν ὁδῶν τὸ κάλεσμα-
Ἔρχονται ἀπὸ μακριὰ οἱ νέοι σαλπιγκτὲς
Τῶν ἐπίλεκτων κλάσεων τοῦ μέλλοντος
Οἱ κραυγὲς τοὺς γκρεμίζουν τὰ σαθρὰ τείχη
Τήκουν τὴ λάσπη σὲ φωτεινοὺς ρύακες
Ἔρχονται οἱ ἁγνοί, οἱ ἀνυπόκριτοι.
Οἱ βιαστές, οἱ ἀμέτοχοι, οἱ παρθένοι.
Οἱ πονηροὶ συνδαιτυμόνες, οἱ ἀθῶοι
Οἱ ληξίαρχοι τῶν ἡμερῶν μας
Ἔρχεται τὸ μεγάλο παρανάλωμα
Μέσα στοὺς πίδακες τῶν πρόσχαρων νερῶν.
Ἔρχονται οἱ τελευταῖες προδιαγραφές
Μὰ τώρα αὐτὸς εἶναι ἁπλὸς θεατὴς
Ἀνώνυμος ἀνθρωπάκος μέσα στὸ πλῆθος
Μὲ τὰ χέρια στὸ στῆθος σὰν ἕτοιμος νεκρὸς
Τώρα πιὰ δὲ χειροκροτεῖ δὲ χειροκροτεῖται.
(Νὰ ξέρεις πάντα τὸ πότε καὶ τὸ πῶς)
Μανόλης Ἀναγνωστάκης
Now he is a simple spectator
Now he is a simple spectator
An insignificant fellow in the crowd
Now he no longer applauds nor is applauded
A stranger wandering to the call of the streets.
The new trumpeters come from afar
From the chosen classes of the future
Their cries demolish the decayed walls
They melt the mud into luminous streams.
The pure are coming, the non-hypocrites,
Violators, non-participants, virgins,
Crafty fellow diners, these innocents
And the registrars of our days
The great blaze is coming
Amid the jets of merry water
The final proscriptions are coming
But now he is a simple spectator
An anonymous little fellow in the crowd
With his arms on his chest a dead man laid out
Now he no longer applauds nor is applauded
(Always know the when and the how)
An insignificant fellow in the crowd
Now he no longer applauds nor is applauded
A stranger wandering to the call of the streets.
The new trumpeters come from afar
From the chosen classes of the future
Their cries demolish the decayed walls
They melt the mud into luminous streams.
The pure are coming, the non-hypocrites,
Violators, non-participants, virgins,
Crafty fellow diners, these innocents
And the registrars of our days
The great blaze is coming
Amid the jets of merry water
The final proscriptions are coming
But now he is a simple spectator
An anonymous little fellow in the crowd
With his arms on his chest a dead man laid out
Now he no longer applauds nor is applauded
(Always know the when and the how)
Manolis Anagnostakis
translated by Philip Ramp
(Picture: Sitting old man nude, Anton Azbe)
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