Canto I - Radu Vancu

There will be people and they will push the world further.

Today it is evening, we are building a Lego police station

and we are watching Cars.

Today the world does not deserve to be pushed further than that.

Today we have not seen the sun struggling tetanized

in the sky. It seemed it never existed.

Today God was not the concept with which

we measure our pain, as John sings.

Maybe it measured the convulsions and torture of the sun,

what do I know. For us there existed

only the slow growth of the police station

and no sun to ruin any plans

above it.

We need a Lego sun shining without alternative

above a Lego abyss. Young Lego peasants

from a Lego Galilee

taking upon them all the Lego sins and dejections.

We need Lego children singing:

“in the shadow of the Lego cross we sat down and wept.”

A Lego John Lennon singing about

Lego gods and concepts and pains.

Only then will the sun struggle happily

in convulsions. Only then will the world deserve

to be pushed on.

Today it is evening, we are building a Lego police station

and we are watching Cars. The milk

gets warm in the white tin cup.

Nothing, and this is no big talk – nothing

can push us further.

4 A.M. Domestic Cantos, 2015.