"Opening"

“Opening”

Once again I tried to change the world,
Working with images in order to achieve
An often brutal form of injustice as a sacred trust.
It must be provided, but it may be useful to say:
If it is not clear, I can not avoid this fight
We are not grasshoppers; we want our lives.

Now we can restore the ancient temple of truth.
There is only honesty, honour: my life without it
We are the home of the Plan: Resurrection will succeed
Because their house is a large country – will not last long.
This is an instrument of ambition: my spirit prize.
You may, if they die, a vision, a vision, a man.

This work was based on the Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933 (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/104/104-h/104-h.htm). It was translated from English to Arabic to German to Korean to Bulgarian to Traditional Chinese to Lithuanian to Indonesian then back to English, courtesy of Google Translate (http://translate.google.com), before the resulting parts were reconstituted into the form shown above.