Mouths Dried with Hatred
Mouths dried with hatred translated from Romanian by Mihaela Niță give up cosmetics dress yourself in sacks harden your heart pass a law against me make your home with me at the pawnshop in the police van at the emergency room on roofs amidst trash fallen from the sky naked with our mouths with our holes open wide let’s wait for a berserk wind to scour our guts come sleep beside me on the concrete floor two aborted fetuses found in a trash bin two corpses embraced in a trunk don’t move something inside us can still breathe under tons of cement that stinking love wants to start over ’cause you and me ate it all drank and fucked it all sucked each other dry we squeezed pimples together lice what do they know what should we say to them about ourselves what should we say to each other under the ceiling lit by our screams we spit each other out mouths dry with hatred love with cotton wadded in the nostrils love with money on your chest I want to write about you as a dog would my face to t