"Nurse Sickness, Patient Health."
"Who's sick?
The one who's always repeating himself,
or the one who runs from repetition
as from evil conscience?
Is it the man who's forgotten himself,
or the one with a self and selves above it?
He who doesn't know his name, or the other one who
keeps reminding people of it?
Hello there, red-blooded health!
Just take a breath, fill up your chest.
What's that small noise I hear in you?
A little broken nerve?
Self-pity?
Wheezing in the deep?
Enough of that, it's time to study what the dying do.
Sobbing to laugh, singing to weep."
I'm sorry I can't read you the Bulgarian.
It would really give you a thrill.
[LAUGHTER]