Essay
Wafer and Stravinsky
Alexander Androv
Translated from the Bulgarian · Вафла и Стравински
So, like, all this boredom
crumbling off my wafer
onto the tiles…
To hell with it!
And there I was thinking of Stravinsky,
even hearing him in my head
between the crunches,
when, surprised, I caught
my reflection in a shop window —
goggling empty eyes
above a half-eaten wafer.