A piece of life in Pristina*

She would sit there
Watching this total stranger
Talking and philosophizing
Over imperative issues
Existentialist questions
Most of which stand rhetorical
But she would not be listening
She would be lost in her imagination
On a different planet
Speaking another language
Imagining scenes
Noting mental scenarios
Of a story of a stranger
Sitting there in front of her
Talking and philosophizing
Over imperative issues
Existentialist questions
Most of which stand rhetorical
Why would she care about the future of Balkan
Why would she bother her brain cells
To think about the destiny of ex-Yugoslavia
When her reality is not even in question
When her world is somewhere else
Above the clouds and beyond the seas
Drafting itself in the form of a poem
About this total stranger
Who was ten minutes ago
Sitting in front of her
Talking and philosophizing
Over imperative issues
Existentialist questions
Most of which stand rhetorical