A Nadsat in Autumn

Written in "nadsat" from Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Thought I'd experiment. If you require the notes to know what the words mean, let me know in a review and I'll add or comment them.

As autumn falls, the leaves turn a clockwork orange,

Falling in cascades from trees,

While poor saps like I viddy

At a distance with my rookers in my pockets

Knowing that like this is when the radosty of summer fades too

And things get too like cold, such as my own good groody.

This is when all my droogs fall in love with their droogs.

And I am but a lone devotchka,

Running round trying not to get my ruddy heart broke.

But still it runs through my lonely gulliver,

Pretend I'm even ready for the old in-out-in-out,

When I've never even tried lubbilubbing for actualness,

Just had the old in-out-in-out with some stupid bratchny,

What never loved me�"never when I asked like not to.

And that all made me want to take a britva to me wrists�"

But I couldn't do that to you, you see.

I wish I were there to hold that there starry old veck,

Pick him up his pornographic old books,

We could smoke some cancers together,

Sing us a warble,

Go home and not do the sodding old in-out-in-out,

Because we're better than that, aren't we?

Better than being held by the yarbles

To viddy with open eyes everything we are like missing?

Author's Note

If you require the notes to know what the words mean, let me know in a review and I'll add or comment them.

Reviews

[Stephanie]

Once again, my dear, you achieve brilliance. I think it's amazing that you can take a made up language like Nadsat from the mind altering Clockwork Orange and use it so naturally to describe the things someone might be feeling at the turn of Autumn. You never cease to amaze me! Beautiful. Brava.