Today’s prompt was a tough one for me, mostly in finding a piece to use. The instruction was to rewrite a poem that’s in a foreign language, not as a translation but as what it looks like it’s saying if it were in English. I chose a poem by Ukrainian poet Victor Neborak, “Boha”, and with the slightly altered title taken from the translation “She 1” here is my version, which came out very odd but very interesting, I thought. (I’ll include the original below for comparison):
She Won
Notary, ha! Have a pie.
Exotic Sun misanthrope, a hero by-and-by.
Exotic Sun, bed and bath hero plays hip.
O aeroplane, Gareth poured honey.
Exotic sun, a hero gnashing POTUS Monty Python
O aeroplane, Gareth’s dyspepsia rips a rapid
Gazpacho hole, Kyuss I anticipate topiary.
A-ha, can-can, toucan pikachu rope key.
Crap, Sheboygan
Asian nonsense
Mat Cothran, a yak.
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