This beautiful weather has ruined me,
It was in weather like this I quit
My job with the Office of Pious Foundations.
I got used to smoking in weather like this
And it was in just this weather I fell in love.
It was in weather like this I forgot
To take home bread and salt.
Always in this kind of weather
I relapse into my poetry-writing disease.
This beautiful weather has ruined me.
Orhan Veli
Translated by: MESSO, George.
Orhan Veli Complete Poems. Bristol, Shearsman Books, 2016; p. 50
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