The Pretty Prince-pins

(Адаптация стихотворения Егора Сергеева "Прекрасные принцы")


The pretty prince-pins would go down in a row,
into the pit where at the bottom it says, 'woe',
and probably in Latin, that's the lowest we get,
they'd say, but down beneath they still had room to let.

Tear your eye-lid up from the undersigned,
pre-approved by the pre-siding over the lid,
I'm Franz Ferdinand, I'm decided and I'm resigned,
come down your shooting range, to make a bid.

Throw up with the lids, and over the LED see,
of monitors, janitors, canisters and banisters may-be,
the ABC boils down to zero at me and Z,
leaving room for Zed, and Zed's gone, ba-by.

The Principle has no mercy, there's no stepping aside,
and the skies turn a deaf ear to calls and falls,
so, the pretty prince-pins would go down, complied
with the Principle of the stallion and the stalls.


* По-английски king-pin – кегля, самая большая, которая в центре, у меня неологизм: prince-pin.
Z (Zee), Zed – два варианта чтения последней буквы английского алфавита; кроме того, Zed – имя одного из героев "Криминального чтива".


13 октября 2020 г.