Misery, Legacy and an Antibiotic by Prvoslav Vujcic, MFA

POETRY – Misery, Legacy and an Antibiotic by Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic, MFA, Canadian philosopher and writer.

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Misery, Legacy and an Antibiotic by Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic

Trixy Zivanic – photo by Sanja Nesic, Serbian Italian photographer and contributor to the Urban Book Circle.

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POETRY

Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic

– Poetry –

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Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic,
philosopher and writer

Misery, Legacy and an Antibiotic

You won’t learn misery,
won’t read about it
You can’t be rescued from its bedrock
She is your birthright, your legacy.
Your ancestors bathed in its backwaters
before you,
so, don’t you come out without your trunks
and your small change for the beach.
So, don’t you be ogling those tanned legs at the beach,
ignore the parasols and the ice chests,
hold on to misery and float on your tears,
that’s the legacy.
Your sails will glide by temples along the shore,
don’t you be stopping by for a prayer,
ignore the fat promises and the friars,
dream not dreams, but your parents
That’s the legacy, join in and float on.
And when the currents lift you to the lake’s circle:
Come out naked, rested and strong,
Go forth and clear the brushwood,
Strike the fire,
Eat the flesh of the wild,
That’s nature and the legacy,
Be natural and keep it changing.
And never look at pictures of the river,
Just walk on and be happy,
That’s the legacy, that’s You.

Field – photo by Sanja Nesic, Serbian Italian photographer and contributor to the Urban Book Circle.

Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic

Heavenward – photo by Sanja Nesic.

Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic is a master of comparative literature, an author, philosopher, the son of Jefrem and Nadezda, the father of four children (Teodora, Jefimija, Djuradj, Dimitrije), a lecturer, journalist, columnist, translator, aphorist, artist on leave, cultural dissident with posttraumatic stress disorder, director of short films, knight and poet. He received his education in Pozarevac, Belgrade, Chicago and Toronto. He was born on July 20, 1960 in Pozarevac and has been living in Canada for the last three decades (since 1987).

Prvoslav “Pearse” Vujcic,
philosopher and writer

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