Miroslav Manasijević

 

 Miroslav Manasijević (1987) is a poet and artist. He has published two poetry books: Wolves In Us (2018) and 30000 Separated Japanese And The Piercing of The Reality (2019). He lives and works in Vranje, Serbia. 

Karma

 

The Sun will outlast the day,

Van Gogh’s blue ear flies.

   A whisper like the cut of destiny

   Bleeds on the glass

Of peeled words.

 

You tell the reality preparing

Modigliani’s revenge in secret.

-          Like a stone,

Like a leaf,

Cheating is simple.

 

( But, on whom do you think you cheat?)

 

On our fingertips,

   All of us wait for the bullet

Coated with the lipstick kiss

Of karma, the unscrupulous widow.

 

 

 

 

In General

 

I have seen some paintings

In which

Death holds the reins

Nails scratch the glass

An angel letting balloons toward the sky

Pinocchio decaying

A crow squatting on some boy’s shoulder

The hand of art veiled in black

A skeleton swimming in the eye

Money closing mouths

 

I saw the painting in which your head

Was dimming above the water

 

While you were standing

And urinating

The blood was running through the pipe

And the urine was running through the pipe

In order to reach your imagined unattainability