To Keep Busy by Orhan Veli Kanık

zdunno03's avatarLeonard Durso

The beautiful women thought
The love poems I wrote
Were about them.
And I always suffered
Knowing that I wrote them
To keep busy.

translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat

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8 thoughts on “To Keep Busy by Orhan Veli Kanık

  1. That one brought a loud guffaw to my heart. And then I stopped and realised I was lying to myself. I was always writing to them – all of them, the blondes, the brunettes, the redheads. It didn’t matter.

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