sexta-feira, março 14, 2008

Arrumações (5): Desastres relativos.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (
Write it!) like disaster.

[ Elizabeth Bishop: "One Art." Complete Poems. ]