Domestic and predacious animals Have a human taste and smell, And go every day on their hind paws - That is the sad fate of the people. Nowadays spectators, nowadays spectators Don’t want any more to see tamers. And if you want to domesticate - Work at the investigation - there is the supreme happiness! Some decent people Have a human taste and smell, And go every day on their hind paws - That is the sad fate of the predacious animals. Nowadays residents, nowadays residents, Don’t want anymore to see tamers. And if you want to domesticate - Work in a circus - there is the supreme happiness.
© Elisabeth Jelinek. Translation, 2018