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The Vietnam classic	A
was a seventy year old child	B
with the face of a tired wise turtle	C
Not from his own extraordinary fame	D
did he suffer	E
but from the fact	F
that he was in fear	G
of the behavior of a red haired tomcat	H
that followed after us with an ulterior motive	I
The cat reclined on a bookshelf	J
choosing a volume of Saint John Perse as his mat	H
The Vietnam classic kept a wary eye	K
when he tossed three pepper pods on a saucer	E
though cats	L
when sitting half starved	M
won't eat perhaps only peppers	N
A prose writer	E
but in essence a poet	O
though afraid of not entertaining	P
as one should	Q
the classic never once fell to complaining	P
that	H
there wasn't a spare crust in the house	R
He poured a dropp of whiskey in a glass of water	E
and over an alcohol lamp	S
with a rolling laugh	T
heated small pieces of cuttlefish	U
a dried delicacy of war	V
In him was the striking	P
deeply moving	P
spiritual staying power of a Buddhist	W
and on a bicyclist's trouser leg	X
was a forgotten clothespin	Y
Dismissing with a hand the flames of battle	C
he spoke of Bo Tzu i	K
Baudelaire	V
and I thought	Z
'What could be meaner	V
than to destroy such a man '	A2
And fear	V
pierced through	V
broke through	V
burned through me	B2
the tomcat	H
made a jump	C2
from the bookshelf	J
Burning hunger had flared up in him	D2
The cat landed near a bottle	C
and snatched a piece of cuttlefish in his teeth	E2
right from my fork	F2
The host in Vietnamese screamed	G2
'Scat '	A2
and dismayed by the tactless act	F
spread his hands	H2
visibly afraid	I2
that I will consider it all unseemly	B2
I took the cat joylessly in my arms	J2
The cat himself was none too joyful about the theft	K2
and I froze with numbness	L2
when	Y
suddenly I sensed	M2
he weighed nothing	P
A red haired bit of nature and a warm grain of sand	N2
trying to arch his back like a wheel	O2
he was weightless in my palms	P2
like the fluff of a poplar	V
'Forgive me '	A2
sadly glimmered in his pupils	Q2
And nothing	P
I say in all conscience	R2
did I ever hold in my hands heavier	V
than the weight of that terrifying weightlessness	L2
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Hanoi	Y
Trans lated by Albert C Todd	S2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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