Miroslav Holub

[from Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers edited by Charles Simic and Mark Strand, 1985]

Suffering [excerpt]

But I ask no questions,
       no one asks any questions,
Because it's all quite useless,
Experiments succeed and experiments fail,
Like everything else in this world,
       in which truth advances
       like some splendid silver bulldozer
       in the tumbling darkness

Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers