There’s One in Every Village

Once upon a time

In a place

Across the crusty Balkans

And the dark blue Danube

There lived in a village

A charming drunk fuck

Who always had

The best time

 

The rest of us

Where busy working

Ploughing, picking,

Building things

While this dude

Was always travelling

Across the rivers

Of homemade liquor

Flooding his complex mind

 

He would always sing

To express his joys to bring

While pulling his little cart

We always asked him

When would he finish

The village windmill

Because he kept bragging

About repairing

That God forsaken

Village windmill

And he would always say

He would finish the job

The next day

 

One day this legend of a drunken man

Died and left us into a bleaker village

The windmill wasn’t finished

But what was finished

Was the special joy

Of seeing this guy everyday

Singing and smiling

Drinking and blinking

In alcohol sinking