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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'awww!'

Monday, April 11

for your reading pleasure

РОДНАЯ ЗЕМЛЯ
В заветных ладанках не носим на груди,
О ней стихи навзрыд не сочиняем,
Наш горький сон она не бередит,
Не кажется обетованным раем,
Не делаем ее в душе своей
Предметом купли и продажи,
Хворая, бедствуя, немотствуя на ней,
О ней не вспоминаем даже.
Да, для нас это грязь на калошах,
Да, для нас это хруст на зубах.
И мы мелем, и месим, и крошим
Тот ни в чем не замешанный прах.
Но ложимся в нее и становимся ею,
Оттого и зовем так свободно - своею

This Russian Soil
In lockets for a charm we do not wear it,
In verse about its sorrows do not weep,
With Eden's blissful vales do not compare it,
Untroubled does it leave our bitter sleep.
To traffic in it is a thought that never,
Not even in our hearts, remote, takes root.
Before our eyes its image does not hover,
Though we be beggared, sick, despairing, mute.
It's the mud on our shoes, it is rubble,
It's the sand on our teeth, it is slush,
It's the pure, taintless dust that we crumble,
That we pound, that we mix, that we crush.
But it's ours, our own, and will open one day
To receive and embrace us and turn us to clay.
--Anna Akhmatova

2 Comments:

  • At 12 April, 2005 07:58, Blogger ceci n'est pas said…

    russian literature melts my face.

     
  • At 12 April, 2005 21:01, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hey, what's up? Long time no talk, but your poem reminds me of my friend in calc class. She is from Romania. She keeps my spirit up in class with her never ending optimism and enthusiasm. She wants to be a teacher. She is going to be a great teacher because she feels deeply about wanting other people to learn. I love it.
    Oh, by the way I didn't get into Georgia Tech. Bummer.
    I'll call soon.

     

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