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I love the fact that you, like me, like so
many of us, Marina -
(I can't speak -
my throat is frozen!) you, like light! like snow! -
(i try to say it, but i almost choke,
as if i'd swallowed ice!) - that you, you too
had piano lessons. a parody of learning!
the gods above both laugh and weep - as though
a candle could be taught the art of burning!
you and the piano, two equal darknesses,
just didn't get on: two perfect, separate rings,
miserable in the mutual deaf-muteness
of mutually exclusive foreign tongues.
two sombre and suspicious specialists -
a hostile and impossible encounter.
you and the piano - two potent silences,
throats still too weak for speaking or resounding.
yet your degree of orphanhood was greater
and settled the matter. piano? - a mere prisoner
of silence, until some collaborator
presses the C sharp with her little finger.
you stood alone - no need of such liaison
and music's struggle was, for you, to find
a way, without disturbing pain's foundations,
to open up a bleeding wound of sound.
doh for a-do-lescence! doh, marina, for declamation, destiny all those
new dawning days! alike, we bow heads in the
child-piano-player's achetypal pose -
like you! like you! - to seize the piano stool,
useless Gedike's caorusel, and instead
to send the snatched-off beret into a whirl
so that it whistles round and round your head!
that's all, for good luck's sake, i meant to do:
to let for once the lovely words come leaping
out - marina, i'm like you, like you! ...
i meant to shout with joy, but see - i'm weeping
Bella Akhmadulina to Marina Tsvetaeva, Music Lessons
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