Nechas ji, aby te oblekla, naucila te nove tance, vzala te do novych klubu, novych baru, protoze i kdyz vis, ze na tom vlastne nesejde, ji na tom zalezi. Nechas ji, aby te vzala do spinave thajske restaurace, kde vari jen prumerne, a kdyz se zepta: "Jak ti to chutna?" odpovis: "Skvely," a ona rekne: "Ja jsem ti to rikala," a ty ji pritom nechas, protoze to nemuzes vysvetlit a budes radsi, kdyz bude stastna a nevedoma nez poucena a zkrisla. Vlastne je to prave tahle vlastnost, ktera te k ni a k podobnym zenam pritahuje a diky niz s zadnou nevydrzis prilis dlouho. Protoze pak zacnou byt jako ty, kdyz se pouci, zacnou byt unavene jako ty, vycerpane. Ale kdyz jeste nepochopily svet, mohou ti stale pripominat radost. Jsou to male uzliky radosti. Muzes jimi zit, i kdyz jsi mrtvy.

almost dawn
blackbirds on the telephone wire
waiting
as I eat yesterday's
forgotten sandwich
at 6 a.m.
an a quiet Sunday morning.

one shoe in the corner
standing upright
the other laying on it's
side.

yes, some lives were made to be
wasted.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose here in this lonely place.
Tangled up in your embrace,
Theres nothing I'd like better than to fall.