WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH THIS KNIFE

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What are we to do with this knife
it isn't sharpened enough
to cut the bread
it isn't literate
to separate the pages
it's not considerate
to trim the tree
it's not good, it isn't

what are we to do with this stupid knife

it's guilty for sitting here guilty
that it guiltily keeps silent for being a knife
what are we to do with it

it isn't sharpened enough
to cut nonsense
between us

maybe it would be better
to bury it into the ground
before it plunges into flesh
without a sound

 


Translations edited by Mark Dalton.

 

 

© Patricia Nikolova
© Andrey Filipov, translated from bulgarian
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