TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PIERRE JORIS
Image Used For Representation
REFRAIN IN THE DAYS OF CORONA
HaHaHa covid 19 HURRAH BRAVO what a find
THE GANG jubilates bravado BABA exults pleased
UNIVERSE on war footing GAGA
Igniferous war and incredible aims Hola!
off the hinges gleaming fangs GRRR
The citizen’s body in danger!
Take up arms! Ready set go! To the rescue!
Emergency measures — bricolage with whatever means at hand —
incoherent liberticides dixit the opponents Of all colors
Democracy the real one The Really real a mother hen
she worries the health of her little ones its flesh its blood
No hesitation! Sirens in your face! Closed to all criticism!
To use firmness tact accumulated ruses arranged music
to make the threat understoodlet it be fastreally fast!
danger looms ATTENTION! WATCH OUT!
this new virus endangers the population majorly
to catch ahold of oneself SLURP…. and confidence have
After all/yes after all and before all and anything
the Republic of Algeria is Democratic
ans the People’s that’s it indeed promised
For the people by the people
The motto embellishes the pediments of the public premises
The National People’s Army is its guarantor
no doubt about that /the NOSE/ don’t speak badly
Finally OUF THANKS pandemic my good friend no hirak no more
The hirak is but a movement masterminded by foreigners
Done with this hand-to-hand struggle where the loser believes to be the winner
A country adrift deranged trictrac blackjack billy club
Chief of staff does all the gabbing Wednesday before dinner
The enemies of the country are innumerable they want its ruin
There are those from foreign parts, awaiting the right moment to pounce
and those from inside who quibble split hairs argue
in te end fooled they fall into the trap
Those young ones walking in neat rows Ignoramuses
They are unworthy of the blood the martyrs shed
How much gullible blood for the Fatherland’s Independence !
In the name of the citizens health have they been asked
— it is a matter of the preservation of their bodies.
flesh had demands beyond the spirit! —
all gatherings have been suspended…
Finally the hirak demonstrators were going to stop invading the principle access roads of the country. Quiet…The calm, who needs it? We don’t care for it in the least! What neither the intimidations nor the water cannons nor the beatings nor the tear gas nor the bullshit promises nor the arrests of the leaders nor the diversion tactics had managed, to stop the demonstrations, the corona virus would achieve on the cheap. Unpredictable Blücher. VIVA GENERAL CORORNA ! The military applaud…
and bye bye At attention! They not blink not move
election held no matter who votes the ballot boxes are stuffed
starting it up new start we share we share
But HIC
The population holds yes it is there
— a civil society in the making —
don’t hear it like that
What to do ?
The regime is a sick body a rotting body the healthy body is the civil society it moves yells bitches demands a civil not a military State but always with humor and civilized silmiya silymia et khawa khawa in truth brother we aren’t it as yet completely but we can sing our tomorrows without stuffing ourselves with illusions and engraving our chant in letters of gold on the green of the meadows on the white of the white-washed walls et the bright red of our day dreams the crescent and the star in lieu of signalisation FULL STEAM AHEAD!
We laughed with Homer and all the bards from Dahra
It is not the end of the world it is a world that comes to its close
And that does not want to yield its hold OUT ! OUT ! OUT !
With or without mask to pound the pavement of the boulevard
At a distance from the security forces keep your cool
It’s the time of the corona as at the seventh seal
But for the Predestined one nobody cares DISINFORMATION ! DEFORMATION !
At rosy-fingered down we went out this Friday
Did so again on Saturday it’s a day off
On Tuesday the students deserted the campus
The pandemic our bodies don’t care body and soul xxx
System unhealthier than virus
What God sends can be endured if reluctantly
But the military we don’t want any of
We want a civil State not gouty gangsters
A justice without telephones without free rides
Ballot boxes not cirque Amar fake boxes
The liberated people decides it is adult waiting for its vaccine
The army to its barracks and to the borders
The pandemic does not scare us
You are corona infamous virus
Our bodies have suffered too much beyond martyrdom
Our dismembered bodies thrown to the torturers
Our dreams stayed without tomorrow neither drum nor trumpet
Your extrusions we’ve had more than enough STOP
Your president made up shamelessly
All those ass-lickers eyeing portfolios
Finance culture ecology whatever it’s always good to grab
You desire this world you have polluted it
Our ideal is higher more beautiful
A free country without restrictions without alienation
You have damaged it what disgrace !
The prisons are overflowing with those revolting against you tyranny
We know the pandemic is very serious we are not stupid
The struggle goes on with other means
Our citizen movement still in its infancy will know
How to eradicate this evil a thousand wrongs in tatters and tomorrow
Go out with more resolve the gag torn off air !
Our means are not minimal but our voices carry united we
Distribute hand-sanitizer masks food bottled water
To the poor hope and good humor when
The rundown hospitals panic BOUH…
Paris no longer available for treatment for our decrepit bodies
Don’t count on Germany or China
The silk road is mined by the Uighur
Of course you don’t care
bank-safe jacuzzi spa comfy bed
All that’s going to change soon BASTA! and fissa, fissa
Crying out loud we claim and reclaim our rights
Trampled rights !
Violated rights !
Confiscated rights ! but
Rights proclaimed !
Rights demanded !
We’ve already said so reverse gear say it again
No way NO NO NO we the children of Amirouche
Our bruised bodies all they want is to enjoy YES
We too love good fare under moonlight
Let’s not fear blackmail or bullets or handcuffs
As soon as confinement’s lifted all vaccinated we
Will resume our marches OUT ! ALL OF YOU, GET OUT!
Also, read Kaido Racers and Other Poems by Dumitru Fanfarov, translated from the Romaian by the poet, and published in The Antonym:
https://www.theantonymmag.com/kaido-racers-and-other-poems-dumitru-fanfarov/
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