Eventuality

A blog that is sometimes frequently updated, and sometimes abandoned completely, from an aspiring writer and professional procrastinator.

March 06, 2006

Like Gravity, It's Stronger Than Me

The problem with not posting is that the longer I go without posting, the more I feel I have to make up for, and the more I have to post, the less I want to post it.

So I'm just not going to bother. =)

Last night I became hooked on this poem, and I don't even like poetry:

PROLOGUE
Yevgeny Yevtushenko


I'm many-sided.
I'm overworked,
and idle too.
I have a goal
and yet I'm aimless.
I don't, all of me, fit in;
I'm awkward,
shy and rude,
nasty and good-natured.
I love it,
when one thing follows another
and so much of everything is mixed in me:
from west to east,
from envy to delight.
I know, you'll ask:
"What about the overall goal?"
There's tremendous value in this all!
I'm indispensable to you!
I'm heaped as high
as a truck with fresh-mown hay!
I fly through voices,
through branches,
light and chirping,
and butterflies flutter in my eyes,
nd hay pushes out of cracks.
I greet all movement! Ardor,
and eagerness, triumphant eagerness!
Frontiers are in my way.
It is embarrassing
for me not to know Buenos Aires and New York.
I want to walk at will
through London,
and talk with everyone,
even in broken English.
I want to ride
through Paris in the morning,
hanging on to a bus like a boy.
I want art to be
as diverse as myself;
and what if art be my torment
and harass me
on every side,
I am already by art besieged.
I've seen myself in every everything:
I feel kin to Yesenin
and Walt Whitman,
to Mussorgsky grasping the whole stage,
and Gauguin's pure virgin line.
I like
to use my skates in winter,
and, scribbling with a pen,
spend sleepless nights.
I like
to defy an enemy to his face,
and bear a woman across a stream.
I bite into books, and carry firewood,
pine,
seek something vague,
and in the August heat I love to crunch
cool scarlet slices of watermelon.
I sing and drink,
giving no thought to death;
with arms outspread
I fall upon the grass,
and if, in this wide world, I come to die,
then it's certain to be
from sheer joy that I live.



I like it. A lot.

I'm streaming The Fold's CD right now on PureVolume. Everything I hear from them always takes a listen or three before I start liking it (although they're great live) and I think This Too Shall Pass is starting to grow on me.