{"id":39650,"date":"2011-07-22T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=39650"},"modified":"2011-07-22T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T14:36:33","slug":"grzegorz-wroblewski-5-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/grzegorz-wroblewski-5-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Five poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Grzegorz Wr\u00c3\u00b3blewski.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discovering New Lyrical Situations<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I sprouted forearms,<br \/>\none with an outline of a watch.<br \/>\n(The ladies around me<br \/>\ninstantly shed their hair.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Will Always Remember The Galleons<br \/>\n(Vale Tudo, Acknowledgments: Google &amp; Packard Bell)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Beckham<br \/>\nhas small tits again:<br \/>\nCraig Rog Call on my mobile +226 783 587 76<br \/>\nAndres Garriz AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY 2009\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nWINS!!! 1 MILLION POUNDS. CONTACT STEVE BAKER FOR CLAIMS!\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nVale tudo: I was looking straight ahead.<br \/>\nEnter,<br \/>\nsmash,<br \/>\nexit.<br \/>\nSarah Compaq Promo\u201d\u008f Wins!!! TICKET NUMBER 001768432463<br \/>\n(PHONE: +447035966416)!\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nONLINE NOTICE Congrats.\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nStakes:<br \/>\n200,<br \/>\n300,<br \/>\n500!<br \/>\nNielsen vs Nielsen.<br \/>\nModern karate vs the monastery.<br \/>\n500,<br \/>\n600!<br \/>\nIt will be no jiyu kumite.<br \/>\nNielsen is short of one ear for a start.<br \/>\nHe hit someone on the head.<br \/>\nSarah Compaq Promo\u201d\u008f Wins!!! TICKET NUMBER 001768432463<br \/>\n(PHONE: +447035966416)!\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nONLINE NOTICE Congrats.\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nFunakoshi would clear off, beaten to a pulp. With his tongue ripped out. I did just that, clear off. (He would have too.)<br \/>\nSarah Compaq Promo\u201d\u008f Wins!!! TICKET NUMBER 001768432463<br \/>\n(PHONE: +447035966416)!\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nONLINE NOTICE Congrats.\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nMorris Totoh NAME: MR. MORRIS TOTOH\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nAndres Garriz AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY 2009<br \/>\nI bit off a meaty chunk of that Russky today.<br \/>\nSarah Compaq Promo\u201d\u008f Wins!!! TICKET NUMBER 001768432463<br \/>\n(PHONE: +447035966416)!\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nONLINE NOTICE Congrats.\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nMorris Totoh NAME: MR. MORRIS TOTOH\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nAndres Garriz AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY 2009\u201d\u008f<br \/>\nAUSTRALIAN LOTTERY 2009<br \/>\n\u201cYou&#8217;ll have to fight someone who knows a bit of the White Crane technique.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cA Chinaman?&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cYour future depends on it.&#8221;<br \/>\nCraig Rog Call on my mobile +226 783 587 76<br \/>\nThe Aabenraa Monster vs the Odense Crane.<br \/>\n\u201cYeah, but what&#8217;s the prize?&#8221;<br \/>\nThat thing looked like a juiced-up man. It had a hole and tits.<br \/>\n(Victoria Beckham<br \/>\nhas small tits again)<br \/>\nBut other than that, it looked like a man.<br \/>\nCraig Rog Call on my mobile +226 783 587 76<br \/>\nCraig<br \/>\nRog<br \/>\nCall<br \/>\non<br \/>\nmy<br \/>\nmobile<br \/>\n+226 783 587 76<br \/>\nLOTTERY 2009\u201d\u008f<\/p>\n<p>A heavily made-up roid-head.<br \/>\nCongrats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyrical Poets Haven&#8217;t Featured In My Poems For A Long Time, So<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lord of cellar labyrinths, the one-eared cat Jespar, fetches<br \/>\nnewly hunted young birds to his lair. Men proudly<br \/>\npoint him out to their children.<br \/>\nIs he the one that ensures balance in the natural world?, asks Janni.<br \/>\nYes, he&#8217;s the one that will save us from poetry, explains her father,<br \/>\nan ardent opponent of social democrats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terrain<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The fat lady cashier from Brugsen, four times,<br \/>\nPierre, the poet and local drunk, five times,<br \/>\nmy neighbor Christiansen, surely a hundred times,<br \/>\na fat Pekinese (that keeps growling at me),<br \/>\nten times or so,<br \/>\nhis owner too, then, ten times or so,<br \/>\nand Mr Paki there at the kiosk, countless times.<br \/>\nCome to think of it\u2026 they must have too,<br \/>\nif I have, so many times, then so have they.<br \/>\nHow many times, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>was it worth it, getting fags at a kiosk<br \/>\nand smoking the whole lot at a crazy<br \/>\npace, washing them down with the cheapest<br \/>\nwine there is and then dying of a heart attack?<br \/>\n\u2013 I asked the guy in the freezer next to mine<\/p>\n<p>and was it worth it, lying down in bed,<br \/>\nsmoochy smoochy, night darlin&#8217;, perfect<br \/>\ndigestion and, with soft Indian music<br \/>\nin your ears, passing away in sleep? \u2013 he answered<br \/>\nmy question with a question.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Rash Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine suddenly switched to sweet<br \/>\nherring. And mastered the word HVEDEBR\u00c3\u02dcDSDAG!<\/p>\n<p>He announced he was now a true Dane<br \/>\n(got himself a summer job as a waiter at Tivoli )<\/p>\n<p>and would only speak Danish from now on,<br \/>\nno exceptions\u2026 HVORDAN HAR DU DET?<\/p>\n<p>Even to his mother-in-law, a 100-kilo<br \/>\ntough lady from the town of Lublin !<\/p>\n<p>I told him he really needed<br \/>\nto reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>(Translated from Polish by Agnieszka Pokojska)<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grzegorzwroblewski1.jpg\" alt=\"grzegorzwroblewski1\" width=\"364\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grzegorzwroblewski1.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grzegorzwroblewski1-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\nGrzegorz Wr\u00c3\u00b3blewski, born in 1962 in Gdansk and raised in Warsaw , has been living in Copenhagen since 1985. He has published nine volumes of poetry and two collections of short prose pieces in Poland ; three books of poetry, a book of poetic prose and an experimental novel (translations) in Denmark ; and a book of selected poems in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as a selection of plays. His work has been translated into ten languages. The English translations of his poems and\/or plays have appeared in London Magazine, Poetry London, Magma Poetry, Parameter Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Delinquent, Chicago Review, 3rd bed, Eclectica, Mississippi Review, Absinthe: New European Writing, Common Knowledge, Word Riot, Practice: New Writing + Art, The Mercurian \u2013 A Theatrical Translation Review, Lyric, CounterPunch, Exquisite Corpse, Guernica, Jacket Magazine, Otoliths, Cambridge Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI Online, West Wind Review and in the following anthologies: Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (Arc Publications, Todmorden, UK 2003), Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird (Zephyr Press, Brookline, USA 2004), A Generation Defining Itself \u2013 In Our Own Words (MW Enterprises, USA 2007). Selected poems Our Flying Objects (Equipage Press, Cambridge , UK 2007), new and selected poems A Marzipan Factory (Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia 2010). His chapbooks to date are: These Extraordinary People (erbacce-press, Liverpool , UK 2008) and Mercury Project (Toad Press, Claremont , USA 2008), A Rarity (Cervena Barva Press, W. Somerville , USA , 2009).<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR<\/strong><br \/>\nAgnieszka Pokojska is a freelance translator and editor, tutor in literary translation at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , and author of a number of articles on translation. Her translations into Polish include poems by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott. Her translations of Grzegorz Wr\u00c3\u00b3blewski&#8217;s poetry appeared in the anthology Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird, in Lyric Poetry Review, West Wind Review, Eclectica, Jacket Magazine, The Journal, Cambridge Literary Review, The Delinquent and Poetry Wales and most recently in the chapbook A Rarity published by Cervena Barva Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grzegorzwroblewski1-150x150.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"solid black 1px\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/> The lord of cellar labyrinths, the one-eared cat Jespar,<br \/>\nfetches<br \/>\nnewly hunted young birds to his lair. Men proudly<br \/>\npoint him out to their children.<br \/>\nIs he the one that ensures balance in the natural world?,<br \/>\nasks Janni.<br \/>\nYes, he&#8217;s the one that will save us from poetry,<br \/>\nexplains her father,<br \/>\nan ardent opponent of social democrats.<\/p>\n<p>By <strong> Grzegorz Wr\u00c3\u00b3blewski.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}