Е. Евтушенко
СПАСИБО
Ю. Любимову
не родиться — это умереть.
с воза мироздания украсть.
и, не уговаривая слишком,
“Thank
you” say to tears and stormy weather;
hasten not to wipe the tears you shed.
Being born and crying go together;
those who aren’t born don’t cry—but they’re dead.
If
you’re alive—though beaten down and broken—
you’ve not yet blended with slick plasma’s murk;
you still can steal a moment, green-tailed, token,
from All Creation’s cart of handiwork.
Like
munching radish, crunch your way toward gladness;
laugh while intercepting sharpened knives.
You might have not been born, that’s scary sadness;
yet scary too the fact that we’re alive.
He
who's born already has found fortune.
To live means fending off the toothless crone.
Impertinence the hope to watch life burgeon,
as if by seventeen you’re on the throne.
Amidst the cherry-bird tree’s
rustle slumbrous,
dead drunk on life’s pure misery, on life’s mirth,
you can’t wake up from reverie most wondrous:
the dream of your existence on this earth.
Not
entertaining hopes for Seventh Heaven,
make sure you stay on good terms with the earth;
although your first life’s baked with bread unleavened,
a second life for you’s not in the works.
Distrust
the rot, trust only scintillations.
When falling fall on milkweed, feathergrass;
be patient, never plant the plant impatiens,
and knock the blessed cosmos on its ass.
In time of grief try
leaping, pirouetting,
even on the wreckage of your soul.
Like Zorba be, your sorrows ripping, shredding;
disgrace commemorate with farandole.
Give
thanks to black cats, those the blackest/darkest
(the ones that always leave you fearful, vexed);
give thanks to melon rinds and slippery stardust,
the stuff you step on, breaking your poor neck.
And
say thanks to the pains that hound, beleaguer,
for pain can make you feel more self-aware,
and say thanks to the share you got most meagre,
for nonetheless you still did get a share.
hasten not to wipe the tears you shed.
Being born and crying go together;
those who aren’t born don’t cry—but they’re dead.
you’ve not yet blended with slick plasma’s murk;
you still can steal a moment, green-tailed, token,
from All Creation’s cart of handiwork.
laugh while intercepting sharpened knives.
You might have not been born, that’s scary sadness;
yet scary too the fact that we’re alive.
To live means fending off the toothless crone.
Impertinence the hope to watch life burgeon,
as if by seventeen you’re on the throne.
dead drunk on life’s pure misery, on life’s mirth,
you can’t wake up from reverie most wondrous:
the dream of your existence on this earth.
make sure you stay on good terms with the earth;
although your first life’s baked with bread unleavened,
a second life for you’s not in the works.
When falling fall on milkweed, feathergrass;
be patient, never plant the plant impatiens,
and knock the blessed cosmos on its ass.
even on the wreckage of your soul.
Like Zorba be, your sorrows ripping, shredding;
disgrace commemorate with farandole.
(the ones that always leave you fearful, vexed);
give thanks to melon rinds and slippery stardust,
the stuff you step on, breaking your poor neck.
for pain can make you feel more self-aware,
and say thanks to the share you got most meagre,
for nonetheless you still did get a share.
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