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While you're alive it's shameful to worm your way into	A
the Calendar of Saints	B
Disbelief in yourself is more saintly	C
It takes real talent not to dread being terrified	D
by your own agonizing lack of talent	E
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Disbelief in yourself is indispensable	F
Indispensable to us is the loneliness	G
of being gripped in the vise	H
so that in the darkest night the sky will enter you	A
and skin your temples with the stars	I
so that streetcars will crash into the room	J
wheels cutting across your face	K
so the dangling rope terrible and alive	L
will float into the room and dance invitingly in the air	M
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Indispensable is any mangy ghost	N
in tattered overplayed stage rags	O
and if even the ghosts are capricious	G
I swear they are no more capricious than those who are alive	L
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Indispensable amidst babbling boredom	P
are the deadly fear of uttering the right words	Q
and the fear of shaving because across your cheekbone	R
graveyard grass already grows	S
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It is indispensable to be sleeplessly delirious	G
to fail to leap into emptiness	G
Probably only in despair is it possible	F
to speak all the truth to this age	T
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It is indispensable after throwing out dirty drafts	U
to explode yourself and crawl before ridicule	V
to reassemble your shattered hands	W
from fingers that rolled under the dresser	X
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Indispensable is the cowardice to be cruel	F
and the observation of the small mercies	Y
when a step toward falsely high goals	Z
makes the trampled stars squeal out	A2
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It's indispensable with a misfit's hunger	X
to gnaw a verb right down to the bone	R
Only one who is by nature from the naked poor	B2
is neither naked nor poor before fastidious eternity	C
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And if from out of the dirt	C2
you have become a prince	D2
but without principles	E2
unprince yourself and consider	X
how much less dirt there was before	F2
when you were in the real pure dirt	C2
Our self esteem is such baseness	E2
The Creator raises to the heights	E2
only those who even with tiny movements	E2
tremble with the fear of uncertainty	C
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Better to cut open your veins with a can opener	X
to lie like a wino on a spit spattered bench in the park	G2
than to come to that very comfortable belief	H2
in your own special significance	E2
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Blessed is the madcap artist	I2
who smashes his sculpture with relish	J2
hungry and cold but free	C
from degrading belief in himself	K2
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Translated by Antonina W Bouis Albert C Todd and Yevgeny Yevtushenko	L2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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