What the Hell
Just nicked this from BHIKKU next door. For no reason except I think it is wonderful. See links to the right.
I said to a gypsy girl
I want to be a gypsy
and have you.
Can you eat bitter herbs with no salt
for an evening meal she said to me,
And then lie down?
I can, I said to her.
Can you lie down she said
without weeping with cold
on the frozen mud?
I can, I said to her.
And on that mud she said to me
can you set fire to my body
and burn it up to ash?
And that too if I can, I said to her.
Can you throw my ashes
into your wine she said to me
and get yourself so drunk you forget me?
No, I cannot do that, I said to her.
You will not make a gypsy, she told me.
- Georgis Pavlopoulos, trans. Peter Levi
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