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Poetry

“I lose verbs most quickly, nouns are left”

By Krystyna Milobedzka
Translated from Polish by Alissa Valles

I lose verbs most quickly, nouns are left,
things
no more than personal pronouns (a lot of I, more and more I)
and names? they vanish, conjunctions vanish
three words, two words
finally my, my inward
my inward out
world

I in the first and last person

English

I lose verbs most quickly, nouns are left,
things
no more than personal pronouns (a lot of I, more and more I)
and names? they vanish, conjunctions vanish
three words, two words
finally my, my inward
my inward out
world

I in the first and last person

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