DESTINY

It's torturing me:
I am an accountant
but I can't do Maths.
My favourite food is Prophet's Passion Aubergines -
they don't agree with me,
I know a girl with freckles,
I love her,
she doesn't love me.

OKTAY RIFAT

Translated by.  Richard McKane

(Voices of Memory: Selected Poems of Oktay Rifat,
 Translated by. Ruth Christie ve Richard McKane
  Istanbul, Yapi Kredi Yayinlari: Rockingham Press, 1993)