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Birney, Earle: Kanada: Látlelet (Canada: Case History in Hungarian)

Portre of Birney, Earle

Canada: Case History (English)

This is the case of a high-school land,
deadset in adolescence,
loud treble laughs and sudden fists,
bright cheeks, the gangling presence.
This boy is wonderful at sports
and physically quite healthy;
he's taken to church on Sunday still
and keeps his prurience stealthy.
 He doesn't like books except about bears,
collects new coins and model planes
and never refuses a dare.
His Uncle spoils him with candy, of course,
yet shouts him down when he talks at table.
You will note that he has got some of his French mother's looks,
though he's not so witty and no more stable.
He's really much more like his father and yet
if you say so he'll pull a great face.
He wants to be different from everyone else
and daydreams of winning the global race.
Parents unmarried and living abroad,
relatives keen to bag the estate,
schizophrenia not excluded,
will he learn to grow up before it's too late?



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Kanada: Látlelet (Hungarian)

Gimnazista föld esete,
serdülőkorba merevülten:
vihog és hirtelen öklöt ráz,
csillogó arc, esetlen küllem.
E kamasz a sportban csodás,
az egészségtől majd kicsattan;
vasárnap templomba viszik,
s ha vakarózik, csak titokban.
Nem olvas, legfeljebb medvékről,
érme- és röp-modell gyűjtő,
s egy kihívást sohasem hárít el.
A Nagybácsi cukorkával tömi,
de asztal mellett a neve hallgass.
Francia anyját nem tagadhatja le,
bár humora gyengébb, s ingatag alkat.
Sokkal inkább üt az apjára, ám
ha ezt hallja, homloka ráncban.
Más akar lenni, mint a többiek,
s álma, hogy első a világ-táncban.
Külön és külföldön élő szülők,
buzgó rokonság, birtokértő,
skizofrénia nincs kizárva,
felnő-e, mielőtt nem túl késő?



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Source of the quotationK. P.

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