Today marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Marko Ganchev
MARKO GANCHEV
THE RESERVES OF EVOLUTION
A mole doesn’t need eyes
however, their place is obvious.
Although on their sewn slit
not even a trace of an eyelid flutters,
if the earth becomes solid tomorrow
and it’s hard for the mole to move there,
through upward evolution
above she will live seeing.
And in man, the cecum,
what is the appendix for?
If dangerous times come
and we had to be herbivores,
through that ruminant pouch
our organism will live again.
Nature, that gracious mother,
to us it is even doubly predictable:
in deep reserve it is left to wait
and the brain in a fool’s head.
HUMAN-LIKE THOUGHTS
IN FRONT OF THE MONKEY CAGE
Is that gibbon funny, my boy?
And the adults look at him with a smile –
he throws away the peeled candy
and eats the paper wrapper.
Do you think he doesn’t know his interest?
he’s just a stupid shebek
and in fact it is part of the process
of turning the ape into a man.
She is still struggling
which object is wrapping and which is wrapped,
and in the future it will be even more difficult for her
for casings of a more complex type.
She will go from wild monkey
in a more advanced society,
which will be wrapped in many words
that which is essentially important.
And to all those standing beside her,
with harmless monkey sin
she will paw the words rustling
without looking for anything under them.
Only after several long centuries,
because this process is not easy,
will look not at the words
and in man.
By this you will know
that she has already become human.
1964
THE ERA OF AQUARIUS
I do not take horoscopes with offense,
and with complete balance because
I didn’t trust them at all for the individual,
however, I believed them for society:
the age of Aquarius will come –
the world will be noble in her.
Until everyone chased riches
or power – that’s how it’s been done since then –
I felt rich, that he ruled
my spirit above their banal manners:
I won’t waste like them on retail –
I will wait for the age of Aquarius.
And then to the youthful hopes
I also added my wild menace,
to society looking down,
when under his mustache he sneers at me:
the age of Aquarius will come –
then I will dust you all!
Years of panthers passed,
of lions, of rabbits, of leopards –
and one had to be a beast all the time
which beast to be wary of first.
I had completely forgotten that I was alive
because of the Age of Aquarius.
But today from the screen in pajamas
what do I hear, damn it:
reading the horoscopes, madam
dispassionately says that for a long time
we were in the Age of Aquarius.
Well, yes, they poured water on me and with it…
2001
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIME
(from Lai po caravana, ed. SU, 2005)
In the spirit of the times
life evolves.
The zeitgeist, ah yes, the zeitgeist.
Yesterday was the spirit of the Collective,
now the Individual is the top.
The matter
let it roll over –
its main property is that –
keeping the same
But what?
oh god why
As a spiritual person
I’m going to mess around
I’d also like to stay dry
But can you
in the ingredients
of the tornado
distinguish matter from spirit?
2003
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