The Tiger and the Snow Page #2

wait till you're at least 80.

Write about something else, the sea,

the wind, a radiator,

a tram running late,

no one thing's more poetic than another.

Poetry isn't without, it's within.

Don't ask what's poetic or true,

look in the mirror, poetry's you.

Dress your poems up,

choose your words carefully,

be selective, some things you need

eight months to find one word.

Beauty started when people began to choose,

since Adam and Eve.

You know how long Eve took

to pick the right fig leaf?

How about this one? She stripped bare

all the fig trees in Paradise.

Fall in love,

if you don't love it's all dead!

Fall in love and

everything will come to life.

Squander your joy,

dissipate your cheerfulness.

be sad and silent with enthusiasm,

hurl your happiness into people's faces.

And how? Let me look at my notes,

I've forgotten.

That's what you should do.

I can't read 'em.

To convey happiness you must be happy,

to convey pain you must to happy.

Be happy, you must suffer!

Don't be scared of suffering,

the whole world suffers!

If you don't have the means, don't worry,

only one thing is necessary

to write poetry, everything.

Don't try to be modern,

it's the most old-fashioned thing there is.

If a line doesn't come to

you in this position,

chuck yourself on the ground like this!

It's lying down that you see the sky.

Why didn't I do that before?

What are you looking at?

Poets don't look, they see.

Make words obey you.

If the world "wall"

doesn't take any notice,

don't use it again for eight years,

that'll teach it.

What's that? No idea!

That's true beauty, like those lines there,

that I want left there forever.

Erase it all, we've got to start,

the lesson's over.

See you Wednesday... Thursday.

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

The room's all yours, Professor Browning.

Thank you Signor De Giovanni.

Please don't, I'll do it.

Still having problems with the principal?

Lots, about the course,

I'd like to discuss it with you.

Can we sleep together tonight?

Nancy!

Last time we slept together it snowed,

it was the coldest

most beautiful day in January.

- Lets sleep together.

- The kids'll be back.

It's laying down that you see the sky.

Don't you like me anymore?

I had such a wonderful time with you,

why did you want to cut it so short?

When I fell in love with you...

I fell in love with you

because you fell in love with me.

And a wonderful fall it was.

What are you doing this evening?

- Nothing.

- Let's sleep together tonight.

Attilio, we've gotta go.

Hi Ermanno.

Do you remember where I left the car?

- Near the entrance.

- Thank you, Nancy.

Knock-knock, I look through the peep-hole,

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