POETRY – Toilet Paper by Slovenian writer Nina Medved, translated from the Slovenian by Bostjan Kmetec.
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Toilet Paper by Nina Medved
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Photo by Nina Medved, Slovenian writer and photographer, contributor to the Urban Book Circle.
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Nina Medved,
Slovenian writer
Toilet Paper
“Toilet paper.”

That was your answer
On what our first purchase will be
After we move in together.
 
“And new bedding.”
 
Which I find completely sensible
As that pink one I have doesn’t suit you.
It gives away you’re sleeping somewhere else
Although in it, you seem like covered with
Some new, fair skin.
 
And I don’t want you to be somewhere else
When we find our here and now.
 
But tell me – do you think that under bedding
That suits both dreamers
One dreams only shared dreams?
 
And which apartment dreams of us,
Of how we fill it with paintings and books,
Put towels on racks, dress it in
The smell of curry and wheat beer on our evenings off?
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Photo by Nina Medved, Slovenian writer and photographer, contributor to the Urban Book Circle.
Nina Medved,
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Translated from the Slovenian
by Bostjan Kmetec.
Photo of Nina Medved courtesy
of Urban Book Circle archives.
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Toilet Paper by Nina Medved
  • Finn MacGovern | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | October 15, 2015
Ravishing poem.
· Poem & Photographs: Nina Medved / All rights reserved 2015. Copyright © Nina Medved ·
· Translated from the Slovenian by Bostjan Kmetec / All rights reserved 2015. Copyright © Bostjan Kmetec ·
· Nina Medved – photo by KMS / All rights reserved 2013. Copyright © KMS ·
· Photo of Samuel Beckett’s bookshelf in the study of his apartment at the Boulevard St Jacques in Paris courtesy of John Minihan / All rights reserved 1985. Copyright © John Minihan ·
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Last updated on October 15, 2015.
Published by Urban Book Circle on October 14, 2015
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