Simple Love
by Frane MilĨinski - Je?˛ek
- original title: Preprosta ljubezen
- first published in 1997
- 255 pages
- translation rights held by Sanje
- rights available: world
- English translations of a selection of poems available
Simple Love brings together, for the first time, Je?˛ek’s poems, song lyrics and other verse texts. His poetry is simple, humanly and socially involved, full of humour and often at its most funny when it is the saddest.
Luck Lives on the Seventh Floor (lyrics)
You can’t buy luck
At a news-stand
Likeacrime paperback
Or the latest GQ (…)
It’s not something you find
In a supermarket
To pick off the shelf, pay as you leave (…)
Luck lives on the seventh floor,
The lift’s out of order so we have to walk …
(transl. by Oliver Sims)