Questionnaire in English

Translated by Laura Garmeson 

mc dressed for the beer festival

darned with fingernail scratches & pinhole rips

echoes of the plough hardened on the skin

(a balloon fit to burst)

in those days well-applied make-up was worth

a course in conversation and charm

a portfolio of briny blood casserole-distilled

briny blood which doubles as a glove

the sandy-end-of-the-beach-glove on my hand

– cloning and streetwalking while the beach

fasts to mask its own mistakes

arranging nature whole and slaughtered on the plate

a kind of combo-meal-number-one for commonplaces –

pilot with renaissance perspectives –

specialist in harmonization techniques

for the colours inside the fridge

Paulo Scott’s novel Nowhere People is out now in the UK, in an English translation by Daniel Hahn.