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[sjora]

I Would Like

Poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I would like

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[moshforjesus]

very neat.

[sjora]

"And I would like happiness,
but not at the expense of the unhappy,
and I would like freedom,
but not at the expense of the unfree."

[dead_pony_ink]

Yes! Those are the lines that almost brought me to tears.

[tupelo_lights]

Dear Shira,

Sometimes I feel that I am all the places I have been. Ditto coffee I've drunk and bus rides I've taken and people people people I have loved and loved and loved.

The other night we were in my room and I finished Emmett's portrait and it was real late at night and he said to me, "I'm tired. If I don't get going now I'll never make it back to Siberia."

These things have something to do with each other.

Love,
Tupe

[urbanfuturistic]

I am currently in a computer lab in the southeast of France, in a town called Aix-en-Provence, and there are students from all over the world sitting around me clacking away and it makes it a little embarassing at times to laugh or smile too big or get a little choked up or even produce a tear about something, and I thought about that while reading this, but when I read the part about speaking every language in the world and someone came in the room and asked her friend if his foot was feeling better (in French) and he responded that Yeah, it's doing alright, but more importantly, how are you? (in French) and I realized I was reading a poem in English and understanding a conversation in French at the same time, and I thought "Hey, I'm on my way I guess" and fuck what they think because I know they want to have their eyes get a little misty at something beautiful, too.
How's that for a run-on sentence?

J'espère que vous êtes bon et je vous souhaite le monde.
-Andrew "I'm finally in France" de Geofroy

"For me it’s not enough to be myself, let me be everyone!"

[sjora]

Drew friend! It is so so good to hear from you;
I was sitting and eating noodles with the crew the other day
and we definitely felt that a certain something was missing....
it was not the pasta sauce.
I hope you are adventuring and smiling loudly.
Huuuug.

[heerter_up]

Why does he not like to be himself?
perhaps i am being negative.
helloooo.

Yeah, so I'm an undercover fan

[dead_pony_ink]

You came to Binghamton, NY a little while back at a reading sponsered by Matt Siegl (probably spelled that wrong) I was there and kind of fell in love. Your poetry is awsome (so is Yevtushenko's). Just wanted to say hi.

Okay so more than a little while back...As I get older time seems to become less and less important. I hope I never have to have a desk job, I don't think I'd be too good at it.

"undercover" is a great compound word

[sjora]

Hello friend!
nice to re-meet you.
have some e-lemonade.
and an e-hug.