MY GOLD TOOTHED BEAUTY

Come, my darling, come to me.
Let me buy you silk stockings.
Let me put you in taxis,
Let me take you to nightclubs.
Come,
Come my gold-toothed beauty.
With your mascara, your perm, my whore,
Your cork-heeled shoes, your American style...
Here,
Come.




Orhan Veli
Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, 1989