Sunday, May 1, 2022

Beauty and the Beast

Attitude to a Lady

Were we two to be lovers
Would be fixed that evening:
’Twas dark,
And no one could possibly see
And I did lean over,
And I did say, leaning,
As good
              as any good parent might be:
“Passion’s slopes are steep.
You know it, too.
The farther you keep,
The better for you”.


Marc Chagall, Drawing for Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 70th birthday, 1963. Courtesy of WikiArt.

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