Friday, April 27, 2012

If I’m Not Asking Too Much

By Marin Sorescu





- What would you take with you
If you had an opportunity
To commute daily between heaven and hell
Just to teach some classes?

- A book, a bottle of wine and a woman, Lord,
If i’m not asking too much.

- You are asking too much, We’ll take the woman.
She would talk too much,
Fill your head with small things,
And you wouldn’t have the time to prepare your classes.

- Lord, i beg of You, take my book,
I will write it myself, if i had beside me
A bottle of wine and a woman.
That’s what i wish, if i’m not asking too much.

- You are asking too much.

- What would you take with you
If you had an opportunity
To commute daily, between heaven and hell
Just to teach some classes?

- A bottle of wine and a woman, Lord,
If i’m not asking too much.

- You’ve asked that before, why are you stubborn?
It is too much, I told you, We take the woman.

- What do You have with her, why so much persecution?
Better take my wine,
It softens me and i couldn’t prepare my classes,
Getting inspiration from the eyes of my lover.

Silence, long minutes,
Maybe even eternities,
Letting me time for forgetting.

- What would you take with you
If you had an opportunity
To commute daily between heaven and hell
To teach some classes?

- A woman, Lord,
If i’m not asking too much.

- You are asking too much, We’ll take the woman.

- Then better take my classes,
Take my heaven and hell,
All or nothing,
I would commute between heaven and hell for no reason.
How could i scare and frighten the sinners in hell
If i didn’t have the woman, as teaching material, to show them?
How could i uplift the right ones in heaven,
If i didn’t have the book to translate to them?
How could i stand the trip and the differences
In temperature, luminosity and pressure
Between heaven and hell
If i didn’t have the wine to give me the courage?

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