Hamleting

This summer Hamlets are ripe and many
All across our states
Which both
Do and do not exist
As their to-bes
And not-to-bes
Resound all over the place

But wherever you place the mousetrap
Either into the Ottoman court
Or into his summer Brozidence
This state of us being
Between being and not being
Can never be brought to an end

Because 
Fortinbras never sets foot in here
Only a merchant once in a while selling pepper
Vinegar, bandoliers and powdered fear
Or a rain-catching bottle’s manufacturer
The maker of šišinje-kišinje

But Fortinbras never
Perhaps a forensic expert here and there

Hamletovanje

Hamletovanje

Ovog su ljeta bogato rodili Hamleti
Po svim tim zemljama našim
Koje nit jesu
Nit nisu
Bitisat će se
Na sve strane
Ili se bitisat neće

Gdje god da mišolovku staviš
Na osmanski dvor
Il u titovalište
Tom nit bivanju
Nit nebivanju našem
Nikako da se učini kraj

Jer
Fortinbras tu ne zalazi nikad
Tek poneki trgovac paprom i octom
Fišeklijama i strahom u prahu
Ili tvorničar boca za kišu svrati
Fabrikant šišinja-kišinja

Nikakav Fortinbras nikad
Tek tu i tamo forenzičar