Electronic Love

Love is on sale in the shop windows of desire

in the Book of Faces where everyone is taking a selfie

with the duck face of despair

as a pop-up of the melancholic everyday

in the society in which everything can be bought

for only 2.99 euros at a 50-percent discount—

but the soul is what’s really reduced.

Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska, North Macedonia (1979)

Translated by the author & Stanley Barkan

Painting by André Dluhos, Slovakia