Τι νέα ψιψίνα; [Ti néa psipsína?] [English translation]

The news on TV predicted weak winds for today

Have you completed your home-maintenance?

I've painted my veranda with this thing which is turning blood into oil paint

a broken vein into an oil paint

an orbit marker pointing the sky

insubordinate to any surveillance, an honest witness.

What's up, pussy cat?

The systemic contraction and dilation

is abandoning us way too often

at a station with a suitcase

containing though

the red pin

which will soon pop

the plastic uniform of the universe.

Today on TV there were some intelligent people

preserving in Switzerland Indian philosophers.

Secrete reason: just before they fell asleep

maybe next month, tomorrow, they say

From tomorrow I'm regaining total control of my life.

And as simple as that they are losing their insomnia and their money

What's up, pussy cat?

The systemic contraction and dilation

is abandoning us way too often

at a station with a suitcase

containing though

the red pin

which will soon pop

the plastic uniform of the universe.

Today I saw the kiosk-lady

crying for all those stowaways

being thrown at the sharks.

Last summer I saw her crying again:

they had her husband operated

and she did not know what they would come upon him

What's up, pussy cat?

The systemic contraction and dilation

is abandoning us way too often

at a station with a suitcase

containing though

the red pin

which will soon pop

the plastic uniform of the universe.

• Artist:Léna Plátonos