FOR SALE – was written, in big tearful letters,

on a building gate.

FOR SALE – was written, in small exhausted

letters, on a car trunk.

FOR SALE – was written on a kiosk door.

FOR SALE – was written on a drug store

show-widow.

FOR SALE – was written on a factory wall.

FOR SALE – was written on trees in the woodland,

as well as on bushes and sporadic mushrooms.

FOR SALE – was written on the cirrus and the

status, the sun and the stars.

FOR SALE – was written on rivers and lakes,

gorges and mountains, cats and dogs.

SOLD OUT – was written, in invisible clandestine

letters, on an enormous signboard

of the government building.

Translated by Samvel Mkrtchian