Yevtushenko, Unrequited Love
Unrequited Love
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
translated by Michael Glenny
to I. Kvasha
Love unrequited is a crushing yoke;
but if you see love as a game,
a trophy,
then unrequited love’s absurd, a joke–
like Cyrano de Bergerac’s odd profile.
One day a hard-boiled Russian in the theater
said to his wife, in words that clearly hurt her:
“Why does this Cyrano upset you all?
The fool!
Now I, […]
by Mia on 1:44 am, April 4, 2008 in echoes none spoke