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Now, in this poem, the first
line will be in Belarusian.

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But don't worry,
because the next line

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is the translation of this.

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And this is also maybe
answering the unasked question,

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how do you write poems in
now in German, in Belarusian?

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And sometimes, it
comes in one language

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and then I continue
in the other.

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So that's also a
good illustration

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how sometimes it works.

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калі птушка злятае
з галіны дрэва

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When a bird takes
off from a branch,

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the branch keeps on
moving for a minute,

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remembering the bird's presence.

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You write at your own hope.

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I read at my own risk.

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Thank you for Roberto
Juarroz and the jasmine tea

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explaining everything,
proving everything.

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Speaking, always being
busy, is exhausting.

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In a flat without doors,
a tap is dripping.

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I tell myself it's a clock
so as not to go crazy.

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And I pray.

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Dear Words, keep
us from the dark.

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But what if there is
also a poem living

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in the dark: lonely and
small, but still a poem?

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I hold out my pencil to it at
my own risk, at my own hope.

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When a bird takes off from a
branch, the movement remains.

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And yeah, there I hear.

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Actually, this poem was written
as an homage to the birthday,

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19th year birthday anniversary
of a German poet, Reiner Kunze,

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who also, let's say, was an
Eastern German poet and had

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to go to the West in order
to escape from those horrible

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things.

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And he has a wonderful poem,
three lines about jasmine tea.

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I mean, not about jasmine tea.

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It's called Invitation
to Jasmine Tea.

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And the meaning is like,
come up, put off your coat.

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Here you can keep silence.

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I'm always moved by this poem.

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Sorry.

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And in this poem, I also try
to have this dialogue with him.

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Because Roberto Juarroz,
the Argentinian poem from

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the '60s, whom I mentioned was
also my other opening discovery

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because of Reiner Kunze, because
he had one of the lines from

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Roberto Juarroz as an
epigraph to one of his books.

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And the idea of those
lines was like, I

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haven't done today anything.

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But so many things
happened inside me.

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And I think that
illustrates a lot

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of how people who work mentally
or not only physically, or not

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mentally, how problematic for
us it is to prove that we work.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And these lines for
me are like savings.

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I'm like, thank you.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Now I know I have the right
just to read books and think.

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