I recently received this from a friend. I think it's worth passing on. Good-bye to 2005, and welcome to 2006.
A poem by thePolish poet, Wislawa Szymborska (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh), printed in The New Yorker on 12/5/05, entitled “A Note”:
Life is the only way
to get covered in leaves,
catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings;
to be a dog,
or stroke its warm fur;
to tell pain
from everything it’s not;
to squeeze inside events,
dawdle in views,
to seek the least of all possible mistakes.
An extraordinary chance
to remember for a moment
a conversation held
with the lamp switched off;
and if only once
to stumble on a stone,
end up soaked in one downpour or another,
mislay your keys in the grass;
and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes;
and to keep on not knowing
something important.
Friday, December 30, 2005
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Nice. I've spent a lifetime "squeezing inside events", maybe human existence is easier in Polish.
Remember, Wednesday, Arch Street, 7:30, F--k the weather.
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