Don’t reach museums – find the square,
The Market Scene!
You, herd, it’s all, because your flair
Is natural when art is seen,
When needlework is all what’s real for you,
The cloth, the egg and here the wheel,
Versailles and the reel,
The unity and beauty in the world of things.
A metamorphosis Death brings,
While the Styx is only a bayou.

*Mark Merman – poet, dramaturgist, composer, performer. Born in 1958 in Minsk. Since 1991 lives in Canada and USA. To the “Project of the century” he responded with a set of poems. Translated by Andrej Bursau.