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The poem Defragmentation by Ákos Kormányos, translated by Katalin Abrudán, was published on Hungarian Literature Online

The poem Defragmentation by Ákos Kormányos, translated by Katalin Abrudán, was published on Hungarian Literature Online. The full text of the poem is available on hlo.hu.

"Defragmentation: A Poetic Confession

When I entered the gates of the primary school,

my classmates were no longer in the courtyard.

The building had three entrances.

One of them was exclusively reserved for the teachers.

The other one, the back door, opened right next to our classroom,

but there were two enormous steps in front of it

that I simply couldn’t climb.

So every day I was forced to choose the third entrance."

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