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odysseus to telemachus - joseph brodsky (иосиф бродский) lyrics

my dear telemachus
the trojan war
is over now; i don’t recall who won it
the greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave
so many dead so far from their own homeland
but still, my homeward way has proved too long
while we were wasting time there, old poseidon
it almost seems, stretched and extended sp*ce

i don’t know where i am or what this place
can be. it would appear some filthy island
with bushes, buildings, and great grunting pigs
a garden choked with weeds; some queen or other
grass and huge stonеs . . . telemachus, my son!
to a wanderеr the faces of all islands
resemble one another. and the mind
trips, numbering waves; eyes, sore from sea horizons
run; and the flesh of water stuffs the ears
i can’t remember how the war came out;
even how old you are**i can’t remember

grow up, then, my telemachus, grow strong
only the gods know if we’ll see each other
again. you’ve long since ceased to be that babe
before whom i reined in the plowing bullocks
had it not been for palamedes’ trick
we two would still be living in one household
but maybe he was right; away from me
you are quite safe from all oedipal passions
and your dreams, my telemachus, are blameless

- joseph brodsky иосиф бродский lyrics

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