Vyhľadávanie
Translated from the Slovak by Julia Sherwood
The First Book of the Cemetery.
In Komárno there is a Cemetery. It is very nice. It is big and spacious. It has many graves. The graves are very nice. They are laid out in rows. Or not in rows. There are gravestones and crosses. They have names.
People go to the Cemetery. Some go in the morning and others in the afternoon. Some bring little rakes. Exetera.
The Cemetery has two gates. One is for people and the other is for corpses. Corpses are dead people, and they are the ones who died. They are in the mortuary. A mortuary is a building regarding corpses. Outside the mortuary there is a courtyard. There are often funerals in the courtyard. It is very nice.
There are people who work at the Cemetery. They are very nice and like to help other people. They dig holes and look after them. They wear suits. The suits are very nice. In the winter the Cemetery is cold. In the summer it is hot. In the spring the Cemetery comes to life.
Lots of funny things and sad things can happen at the Cemetery.
I don’t know what else to write about the Cemetery.
It is very nice.
Samko Tále. Writer.
Komárno.
The Second Book of the Cemetery
This is the second time I have become a writer because I’ve already been a writer once. That time I wrote the first Book of the Cemetery. Today I have become a writer again because it’s raining and when it’s raining I can’t collect cardboard because it’s raining. But the most important thing is that my push-cart is in the workshop because my rear-view mirror has come off, and I don’t know how to fix it because you need special tools Exetera to fix it and I can’t do it because I don’t have them. My rear-view mirror has never ever come off before although I’ve had my push-cart for 28 years, because I’m hard-working and people respect me due to that.
The workshop is on the Island and it’s got special tools. The man who fixes things with the special tools is named Ján Boš-Mojš and the funny thing about him is that every time he says his name, Ján Boš-Mojš, he doesn’t say it, he sort of sings it like this: Ján Boš-Mojš. He sings his name to a sort of Ján Boš-Mojš tune. But apart from that he is hard-working and people respect him, because he has a son who is very ill with elypsy, and Ján Boš-Mojš has to look after him because elypsy is the sort of illness where you have to be looked after.
His son’s name is Ján Boš-Mojš Jr.
They are both in my Notebook, because I have three Notebooks. One is called First Names, the other one is called Last Names and the third one is called Died. That’s where I write down everyone that I know because if I didn’t write down everyone I know, how would I know who I know, right?
Right.
I’ve got Ján Boš-Mojš and Ján Boš-Mojš Jr. down in my Last Names Notebook under the letter B and also under the letter M, because you never know what’s what and why and how.
Exetera.
