Simultaneous Translation

from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs by Chris & The Ifso

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SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION

I’m listening to one of Dubai’s leading novelists
Say something profound - I don’t know what it is
His books are bricks, his words are bombs
My ears are blind my tongue is dumb

How did they raise three years funding from the UAE?
How will the minister of culture introduce you and me?
Your presentation
Written in your hotel room in lonely desperation
In translation, simultaneous translation
Of all the above

Dreams of winning prizes - not being their administrator
Meeting with an author whose name’s a tongue twister
Who wrote a graphic novel of the story she translated
- the one that critic slated

I’ll be starting any time now
In a minute I’ll begin
Now I’m going to really happen
Up to now I’ve not been trying.
It’s too late to change I know
I should have done it years ago
What's the point of starting now -
Too old to grow too young to go

Talking to an analyst of dreams and suppositions
Of Attitudes and politics and missionary positions
You’re the journal I write in,
This glass of wine the ink where I dip my pen

We’ll meet again, إلى اللِقاء (ilá al-liqāʾ)
For days of canapés and the cultural blah blah blah
Let's take the hire car
To a place where people say exactly who they nearly are
In translation, simultaneous translation
Of all the above

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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