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“Objects” by Zbigniew Herbert 🇵🇱 (29 Oct 192428 Jul 1998)
Translated from the Polish by John Carpenter
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.