Mandarinskall - deLillos

Det var en dag det snødde tett

Jeg må ha vært på en diett

Men lunsj var bare rett og slett

En mandarin

Jeg trasket ned Bygdøy allè

Jeg klarte nesten ikke se

Da en forferdelig stemme hveste

Hei ditt svin

En gammel dame sto å banket med sin stokk

Hun sa nå far det bare virkelig være nok

Nå får du se å komme her og ta å plukke opp skallet der

Ja det virket som hun nesten gikk amokk

Det varte kanskje et minutt

Jeg ble en bitteliten gutt

Som hadde gjort noe forbudt

Og som ble tatt

Hun sa du må da ha forstand

Jeg ser du er en voksen mann

Jeg kunne falt og slått en tann

Det skallet er glatt

Jeg plukket opp og gjorde jakkelommen våt

Men jeg gikk videre og hadde nå forstått

At når de gamle damer vågner her på gamle fine Frogner

Bør man passe på og alltid te seg flott

Det skjer så alt for mye galt

I denne verden overalt

Og ingen hjalp til når det gjalt

Når det var krise

Men kanskje hjalp det likevell

Den dag jeg plukket opp mitt skrell

Man må jo ta litt hensyn

Selv når man skal spise

En enkel dag er jeg blitt gammel syk og sur

Blir holdt i live av en fandens pillekur

Både ensom og forlatt vil jeg sikkert mene at

Unge mennesker er helt blottet for kultur

It was a snowy day

I must have been on a diet

But lunch was just plain simple

A mandarin

I trotted down Bygdøy avenue

I could hardly see

Then a terrible voice hissed

Hi your pig

An old lady was knocking with her cane

She now said father it just really be enough

Now you get to see coming here and picking up the shell there

Yes it seemed like she almost went crazy

It lasted maybe a minute

I became a tiny boy

Who had done something forbidden

And that was taken

She said you must then have sense

I see you're a grown man

I could fall and knock a tooth out

That shell is smooth

I picked it up and made my jacket pocket wet

But I went on and had now understood

That when the old ladies wake up here on old fine Frogner

You should be careful and always look great

It's happening way too much wrong

In this world everywhere

And no one helped when it mattered

When there was a crisis

But maybe it helped anyway

The day I picked up my peel

You have to pay a little attention

Even when eating

One simple day I have become old sick and angry

Being kept alive by a hell of a pill cure

Both lonely and abandoned I would probably say that

Young people are completely devoid of culture