[Poesia]

11.04.2015 в 10:17

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... a poem Terry wrote for an anthology called NOW WE ARE SICK, which I edited with Steve Jones in 1985. His poem began...

They don’t teach you the facts of death,
Your Mum and Dad. They give you pets.
We had a dog which went astray.
Got laminated to the motorway.
I cried. We had to post him to the vet’s.

You have to work it out yourself,
This dying thing. Death’s always due.
A goldfish swimming on a stall,
Two weeks later: cotton wool,
And sent to meet its Maker down the loo.)

(с) Neil Gaiman's Blog: The Facts of Death

И дальше:
Given the title of the anthology in which this was to appear, I tried to write this as though I were thirteen years old, with that earnest brand of serious amateurishness. This is possibly not a long way from how I write at the best of times …

They don’t teach you the facts of death,
Your Mum and Dad. They give you pets.
We had a dog which went astray.
Got laminated to the motorway.
I cried. We had to post him to the vet’s.

You have to work it out yourself,
This dying thing. Death’s always due.
A goldfish swimming on a stall,
Two weeks later: cotton wool,
And sent to meet its Maker down the loo.

The bottom of our garden’s like a morg-you
My Dad said. I don’t know why.
Our tortoise, being in the know
Buried himself three years ago.
This is where the puppies come to die.
Puss has gone to be a better cat
My Dad said. It wasn’t fair.

I think my father’s going bats
Jesus didn’t come for cats
I went and looked. Most of it’s still there.
They don’t teach you the facts of death,
Your Mum and Dad. It’s really sad.

Pets, I’ve found, aren’t built to last;
One Christmas present, next Christmas past.
We go on buying them. We must be mad.
They die of flu and die of bus,
Die of hardpad, die of scabies,
Foreign ones can die of rabies,
But usually they die of us.

(с) Terry Pratchett, "A Blink of the Screen"

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