TED KOOSER
SCEGLIENDO UN LETTORE
Per prima cosa, mi piacerebbe che fosse bella,
e camminasse con grazia sulla mia poesia
nel momento più solitario di un pomeriggio,
i capelli ancora umidi sul collo, lavati
da poco. Dovrebbe indossare
un impermeabile, vecchio, un po’ sporco
perché non ha abbastanza soldi per la lavanderia.
Tirerà fuori gli occhiali, e lì,
nella libreria, sfoglierà
le mie poesie, poi metterà di nuovo il libro
sullo scaffale. E si dirà:
“A quel prezzo, posso far lavare
il mio impermeabile alla tintoria.” E lo farà.
(da Sure Signs, 1980)
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Selecting a reader
First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
“For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned.” And she will
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
“For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned.” And she will
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