37 Galdera Mugaz Bestalde Dudan Kontaktu Bakarrari
Esaidan, zoriontsuak al zarete
mugaz bestaldeko biztanleak?
Kausitzen al duzue maitasunik
sikira zuen maitatuen arteko
ehundiko hogeitabost edo
hogeiaren baitan, ala hemen bezala
mutu al diraute telefonoak,
bihotz mortuak bailiren gauez gau
bihotz mortuak bailiren etxeko
laberintoaren azkeneko salan?
Zuen erresumako lurraldeen artean
ba al dago Greenland edota
Groenlandia deitutako parajerik?
Ospelak al dira hango haranak?
Ba al daude Shell konpainiako
gasolinategiak, eta ez al dira biltzen
tximeletak kolore horiko karrankaletan?
Neguan ere ez? Ez al du esistitu han
Cenizas bezala firmatzen zuen espia batek?
Esaidan, zoriontsuak al zarete
mugaz bestaldeko biztanleak?
Ez al duzue karramarroekin
ametsik egiten? Eta ume itsuekin?
Tom Simpson ziklistarekin akordatzen
al zarete inoiz? -nola
asfisiatu zen Aubisque mendian gora,
nola bere elastikoak axedrez taula apurtu bat
zirudien karreteraren harri txintxarretan?
Mugaz bestaldean, hostoek ematen
al diete babesa fruituei?
Ba al dago marrubirik? Arrain abisalek
ba al dute aurresentipenik
eguzkiaz, ba al dakite argia
eta iluna hitzak bereizten?
Trena hartu eta egunaren
trasparentzian izkutatu zen jendeak,
azken unerarte gorde al zuen
geldi zitekeeneko ilusioa?
ala esan zaidan, haize boladetan
datzala txorien halabeharra,
ba direla portua sekula arkitzen
ez duten untziak itxasoan.
Zuek patua aipatzen duzuenean zertaz
ari zarete, zehazki?
Lan seguru baten abantailaz?
Edo laranjarekin jaten denaz, sinpleki?
Otoi egiterakoan, gogoan izaten
al dituzue desertuko karabanak?
Asko al dira, asko al zarete
mugaz bestaldeko erresuma hartan?
Egunero kaletik ikusten dudan jende hau,
han bizi al da?
37 Questions to the Only Contact I Have on the Other Side of the Border
Did I tell you, are you happy
residents from the other side of the border?
Do you believe in love
between your loved ones
in the eighty-fifth or
within the twentieth, or are they silent
are the phones mute,
would the dead hearts beat at night
would the dead hearts beat at home
in the last room of the labyrinth?
Among the lands of your kingdom
is there Greenland or
any paradise called Greenland?
Are there hospitals in the valleys?
Are there gas stations of the Shell company
and do they not gather
butterflies in orange-colored wings?
Not even in winter? Does it not exist there
a spy who signed as ashes?
Did I tell you, are you happy
residents from the other side of the border?
Do you dream
with the wild boars? And with deaf children?
Have you ever agreed with
the cyclist Tom Simpson? -how
he asphyxiated going up the Aubisque mountain,
how his elastics seemed to break
on the chessboard of the road's stones?
On the other side of the border, do the leaves
give protection to the fruits?
Is there any horehound? Do the abyssal fish
have premonition
of the sun, do they know the light
and distinguish the dark words?
Did the train take and hide
people in the transparency of the day,
did you keep until the last moment
the illusion of being able to stop?
or did I tell you, in the flight of the wind
that there are so many birds,
that the port is never closed
for the ships in the sea.
When you mention the patch, what
are you talking about, specifically?
About the advantage of a safe job?
Or simply about eating an orange?
When you are making a wish, do you remember
the caravans in the desert?
Are there many, are you many
in that kingdom on the other side of the border?
Is this person I see on the street every day,
do they live there?