Текст песни Диана Арбенина - Стихи. Дезертир сна. 13

1-The natives

natives live in the mountains and more specifically their houses are located
in the gorges of the mountains.
in safe steep slopes.
I don't know who taught them this safety, but tsunamis and avalanches
bypass the natives.
it gets to the point where they sit on mats smoking alpine herbs
and watch the catastrophe of nature without moving and outwardly
indifferently.

the natives do not know what treason is.
when they happen to fall in love, they conquer and take
forever and ever.

the native lives 98 years and knows only one woman.

a native dies when he kills a wolf.
so accepted.
when a native begins to swallow his lungs instead of air he
removes the gun from the wall and leaves.
nobody cries. no one is running after him. everyone knows that the native
will not come back.
and time freezes, turning to hearing.

and when the long-awaited shot is heard the youngest of the sons
hands the mother a rifle
stands at the edge of black soil and watches as she shoots herself in the chest.
the elders begin to swaddle her and the younger climbs the mountains and
brings the body of the father and the tongue of the wolf.
the father is lowered into the grave and his head is placed on his mother's shoulder.

the natives are the happiest people.
not a single expedition could find and study them.
not a single civilization could find them.

they say there is no heart in their body.
say the sky is crying for each of them.
speak the language of the wolf becomes a swallow.

but I don't know who told me all this.

2004. autumn. andorra