Reading the obituaries of authors

who translated

Seems like every week

there dies an author,

who beyond labours of

his or her own work

translated that man Shakespeare.

Just wonder how many

of their own works

are left untranslated

when other authors

keen to get on their obituary

the honorific "translated Shakespeare"

put them aside to give the world

one more Romeo and Juliet,

yet another Julius Caesar,

Macbeth....

Culture is kept up,

as a working machine of memory,

with repetition,

but it doesn't progress through

piles of Shakespeare in

hundreds of languages

translated again and again.

Let Shakespeare be,

o translators,

for a generation,

and give us works of your peers

still breathing!

30.12.2014