Last will

Why do I prefer
all these haikus and tankas?
It was the last will
of me-mathematician
written-off by me-poet.

by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2015

20 thoughts on “Last will”

    • Thank you, good sir 😛
      (just recalled)

      I hated all the sciences except for music
      I stubbornly and haughtily repudiated them
      And gave myself entirely to music.
      It’s hard to make first step,
      First path is always boring.
      The early miseries I easily came over
      And made a craft a pedestal to art;
      So I became a craftsman, and I gave
      My fingers dull and docile fluency
      And loyalty to ear. And I killed
      The sounds, and dissolved the music
      Like a dead body. I checked up harmony
      With algebra. Well versed in science,
      I dared lapse into creative dreams.

      (Alexander Pushkin. Mozart And Salieri. Scene 1. Salieri)

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