Translated from the Hungarian


I made veiled threats to the waiter

as he served my meal

 

Yesterday he had threatened me

from behind the barricades

 

We both enjoy our proxy wars

 

But I know that some day

I will throw his bloated corpse

Into the quicklime reserved for hero’s

 

 

The Meal (Az etkezes) by Peter Mal Kovacs (1946-1970)

 

 

 


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