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Blindcow Moves Downtown

from Cityo ː Games by Bigue Fague

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When you move downtown just as all your friends move uptown but you gotta press on D:

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Topant de cap en una i altra soca,
avançant d’esma pel camí de l’aigua,
se’n ve la vaca tota sola. És cega.

D’un cop de roc llançat amb massa traça,
el vailet va buidar-li un ull, i en l’altre
se li ha posat un tel. La vaca és cega.

Ve a abeurar-se a la font com ans solia;
mes no amb el ferm posat d’altres vegades
ni amb ses companyes, no: ve tota sola.

Ses companyes, pels cingles, per les comes,
pel silenci dels prats i en la ribera,
fan dringar l’esquellot mentres pasturen
l’herba fresca a l’atzar... Ella cauria.

Topa de morro en l’esmolada pica
i recula afrontada... Però torna
i abaixa el cap a l’aigua i beu calmosa.
Beu poc, sens gaire set... Després aixeca
al cel, enorme, l’embanyada testa
amb un gran gesto tràgic; parpelleja
damunt les mortes nines, i se’n torna
orfe de llum, sota del sol que crema,
vacil·lant pels camins inoblidables,
brandant llànguidament la llarga cua.


Translation:

Stumbling onto many a tree trunk,
By the river shore, there goes the cow
Errant and lonely. She is blind.

Great marksmanship, that of the cowherd,
The cow’s eye gouged out by a rock sent flying,
While the other eye is veiled over: she is blind.

In the fountain she quenches her thirst,
Like she did before, just not as resolutely as yore
And without her mates; yes, she is alone now.

Her mates in turn, in hillocks and dales,
Deep in the silence of pastures and river banks,
Sound their cowbells as they nonchalantly
Graze the fresh grass…She would fall.

Cow butts again with her head in the worn trough,
And recoils somewhat in affront…Only to return,
Head lowered, reaching for the water, drinking calmly.
Little does she drink, far from athirst.
She then raises her horns onto the wide sky,
With a great sense of tragedy; she blinks
Over the dead pupils, and moves back
Under the scalding sun, yet orphaned of light,
Hesitating in the unforgettable cattle tracks,
And tremulously flipping her long tail.

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from Cityo ː Games, released February 3, 2022
The text being recited is a Catalonian poem called “La Vaca Cega” (“The Blind Cow”), read by user xserra on freesound.org (freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/273175/).

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