Kamil Princ – Inter arma (Mili Dueli 2023 – Grand Final)

INTER ARMA

Spavaj slatko, vojniče, kad puk da pogineš veli,
dok sveštenik mitraljez sve krsti olovom.
Buka topova je orkestar u izvođenju molskom;
koji je, za slavu zla, komponovao veliki Makijaveli.

Je li metak sjeme što u tlu mesa niče,
pa crveni pupoljci iz grudi izbiju tada?
Sa prijestolja palih tijela nad nama vladaš, Juda!
Dok krv se žanje, “Deus vult” truba kliče.

U ratnom ruletu se oštar naboj vrti.
Čiji će broj biti prozvan? Ko će biti sledeći Jov?
Samo truli kosturi o miru mogu sanjati.

Marš Radeckog svira u svojoj razvratnoj plemenitosti.
Kako su blizu kolijevka i masovni grob…
Ovdje roda donosi djecu, a lešinar ih odnosi!

Translated to Montenegrin by Anđela Turukalo Dabetić
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INTER ARMA (Czech)

Spi sladce, vojáku, když pluk ti zemřít velí
a páter kulomet křtí všechny olovem.
Hluk děl je orchestr při sólu mollovém,
co složil k slávě zla sám velký Machiavelli.

Je kulka semínkem, jež vzklíčí v půdě masa
a rudá poupata pak z hrudi vyraší?
Na trůnu z padlých těl nám vládneš, Jidáši!
Řev polnic „Deus vult“ při sklizni krve hlásá.

Ve války ruletě se točí náboj ostrý.
Čí číslo padne teď? Kdo bude dalším z Jobů?
O míru mohou snít jen v zemi tlící kostry.

Zní Radeckého marš v své zvrhlé noblese.
Jak blízko z kolébky je k masovému hrobu…
Čáp děti přináší a sup je odnese!
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INTER ARMA (English)

Sleep well, soldier, when the regiment orders you to die
and the parson machine gun baptizes everyone with lead.
The noise of cannons is an orchestra during a minor scale solo,
which the great Machiavelli himself composed for the glory of evil.

Is bullet a seed that sprouts in the soil of flesh
and red buds will then sprout from the chest?
On a throne of fallen bodies you reign over us, Judas!
The roar of trumpets proclaims “Deus vult” when the blood is harvested.

In the roulette of war a projectile spins.
Whose number will be called now? Who will be the next Job?
Only rotting skeletons in the ground can dream of peace.

Radetzky March plays in its depraved nobility.
How close it is from a cradle to a mass grave…
The stork brings children here, and the vulture takes them away!

I work as a Sales Engineer at a laboratory testing high power equipment, such as switchgear panels, disconnectors, circuit breakers, etc. I am an editor in the Czech Newspaper of the Writers’ Community and a founder of the art magazine “Smrtisyn” for the current Czech neo-decadence movement. I also work as curator of various visual art exhibitions and I write art critics and philosophy essays, mostly focused on the present neo-decadent art influenced by the old “fin de siècle ideas” of Ch. Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche and the early works of P. Verlaine (Poemes saturniens). I am a co-founder of the electronic-metal music band “Maldorör Disco” inspired by the aesthetics of Comte de Lautréamont and his book “Les Chants de Maldoror”. I am engaged in translation work of the English, German and French poetry. In my free time I study philosophy and psychology, including the non-conventional topics such as hypnosis and the phenomenon of near-death experience (NDE).

My country of origin, the Czech Republic, is rather peaceful. We are a small and modest state that experienced many wars and oppressions in the past, so I hope the warfare never returns to our nation again. In my opinion, the peace could be contributed by nourishing the peoples’ passion and love to art in general – not just in poems. The human soul experiencing the magnificence and variety of creative work in musical, visual, literary, and performative forms in all its freedom and diversity can find its inner reconciliation, even though the outside world is often cruel, unfair, and painful. I believe the intellect and the beauty of art in various forms is the antidote to the arrogance and ignorance of the mankind.

1. Sonata for a rusty harp, poetry collection (2011)
2. Using a knife I teach a fish how to scream, poetry collection (2019)
3. Echo of a fish’s yell, poetry collection (2023)

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