YOU CAN RUN

(translated by Karin Pečnikar)

You can run

around every tree.

You can hide behind every tree.

Just don’t lean

on any of them!

You don’t know,

which one is

rotten,

uprooted,

was sawed into.

You can fall.

Terribly.

But this is not the worst.

It is worse still

that you then suspect

that all the trees are

rotten, uprooted,

were sawed into.

And suddenly you’re so sad

and so alone.