L’Helena (Goldberg) de Peter Meinke

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Helen

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Un escultor guillat en el nostre parc
hi ha representat, en bronze modelat,
la vella història de Leda i el cigne.
Allí, els arbres són frescos i foscos
i la gent pot seure i contemplar
les mil i una formes que l’amor pot adoptar.
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I en la base de ciment, entre
les acalorades figures i la fresca gespa,
hi ha gargotejat en lletra entenedorament obscena
Helen Goldberg es al putu cul.
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Ah, Helen Goldberg, el teu amant mortal
ha resultat fals i, pitjor encara,
analfabet. Digue’m, voletejava
com un cigne sobre la teva faldilla tremolosa
en un esclat de llum i ombra,
o vàreu ser sorpresos per una dutxa
d’or, llampant com El Dorado,
quan us deixàveu anar?
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Si bé, segurament, et vares canviar el xiclet d’una banda
a l’altra mentre ell tenia problemes
amb els seus pantalons arrapats (no els teus)
i tu esperaves que després et donés una volta
en la seva bici—i, de fet, l’amor és una bombolla
que explota com un xiclet entre femenines dents.
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Hi ha d’haver un missatge aquí, i, en canvi,
em jugaria el que fos
que no va haver-hi cigne en aquells temps, tampoc,
només una història que la Leda de cabells castanys
es va inventar per explicar a sa mare
per què arribava tard un altre cop,
i la seva estimada filla no va sortir d’un ou,
sino que va néixer de la mateixa poc elegant manera
que la Helen Goldberg, els pits punxeguts
i el caminar remena-cul de la qual
causava estralls a tot el 77th Street West,
Troy 23, New York.

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Peter Meinke
Liquid Papers and Selected Poems

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Peter Meinke (Flatbush, Brooklin, NY, 1932)

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Helen
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A mad sculptor in our park
has fashioned there, in writhing bronze,
the old story of Leda and the swan.
There, the trees are cool and dark
and men may sit and contemplate
the myriad forms that love can take.
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And on the cement pedestal, between
the burning figures and the cool grass,
is scrawled in printing recognizably obscene,
Helen Goldberg is a good peece of ass.
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Ah, Helen Goldberg, your mortal lover
has proved false, and, what is worse,
illiterate. Tell me, did he hover
swanlike above your trembling skirts
in a burst of light and shadow,
or were you surprised by a shower of gold,
shining like El Dorado
in your surrendering hour?
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But probably you shifted your gum from one side
to the other while he had trouble
with his skin-tight pants (not yours)
and you hoped later he’d give you a ride
on his cycle—and anyway love’s a bubble
that bursts like gum in feminine jaws.
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There should be a moral here, and yet
I’d be willing to bet
there was no swan back then, either,
just a story that brown-haired Leda
made up for her mother to explain
why she was late again,
and her lovely daughter didn’t hatch from an egg
but was born in the same inelegant way
as Helen Golberg, whose pointed breasts
and bottom-twitching walk
devastated all of 77th Street West,
Troy 23, New York.
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Peter Meinke
Liquid Papers and Selected Poems

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