Leevi Lehto: Juanita and Points of View

From Kielletyt leikit (1994). Translated by Anselm Hollo
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I
Really a wormish substance, he's compiling this on the Walkway of
Upper Detour.
It all starts out business as usual
...he wriggling, eyes screwed up
as if listening to a dentist's drill - just thinking about it.
Thoughts (or desire) have woken him up before the dawn.
The light emanating from him flashes, goes on and off, blinks;
a test drive will convince you of the car's
peerless features.
By way of example let me cite the case of three German industrialists. Someone had posed the interesting question regarding those two glasses
of grape-fruit juice. The humiliation
there in front of friends and co-workers had been verging on
complete.
Strangely enough, he thinks, I feel pity for those bawling
fatsos, even though the likes of Mr. Sami Harjula, 23, Mr. Sami Juvonen,
26, and Mr.
Henrik Kosonen, 24, have hardly said their last word
yet. Initially, the team set out to specifically develop
an all-purpose package consisting of standard devices, the last-mentioned
affirms
while calmly picking up the scattered counters.
Ready, steady; go, Ann, go!

II
The first game is over now, and the result looks like a bust.
Still he cannot but think about how Juanita turned her back to him
as the man followed her into the bedroom, pleading.
In the midst of the reception festivities his mind drifts
painfully back
to events past.
Every possible angle has been pursued,
and this, in turn, affects the size of print runs, chasing writers out into
the street, out of earshot.
Cowbells and a miniature church perched on a hilltop exude a
peace that is not of this world.
When calling the Answerer, it plays the messages automatically
and now the bridges flow eastward.
He tries to raise his immense carcass but collapses back again.
Its centers of gravity lie in increased taxes, more subventions to the banks,
as well
as fleecing the families with children ever more heavily,
and suffices it to bring the cloves of garlic to a boil with the beans and let
them cool off and nothing
isn't in no way similar to anything but nevertheless looks pretty good
indeed.
My sentiments exactly, Pepe! Make the misunderstanders pay!
The brunch
will be available to all
who would like to participate, and all
who would like to participate will
have brunch.