This is newness: every little tawdry
Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,
Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you
Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,
The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.
There's no getting up it by the words you know.
No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.
We have only come to look. You are too new
To want the world in a glass hat.
Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,
Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you
Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,
The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.
There's no getting up it by the words you know.
No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.
We have only come to look. You are too new
To want the world in a glass hat.
Sylvia Plath
1 comentário:
"Vai-se esgotando a taça do festim.
Sorvo a sorvo, no espelho do cristal
Fica apenas a baba natural,
O melaço do fim.
Ah, não haver coragem verdadeira
De se quebrar o copo antes da hora
Em que se acaba o vinho, e a bebedeira
De repente melhora!"
Ano Novo - Miguel Torga
Feliz 2008!!
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