La gente e altre seccature by Judith Viorst

Author:Judith Viorst [Viorst, Judith]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Publisher: EINAUDI
Published: 2023-08-30T12:00:00+00:00

Lessons

She was taught

If you don’t get married you’ll wind up a very lonely

person staring at the four walls, and

He was taught

If you don’t finish law school you’ll wind up an object

of pity and contempt selling ties in an East

Orange haberdashery, and

She was taught

If you don’t put a little something aside every week

you’ll wind up a very lonely person being

thrown out on the sidewalk, and

He was taught

If you lend a friend your sport jacket he’ll perspire

under the arms and it won’t come out at the

cleaners and you’ll wind up resentful, and

She was taught

If you don’t have Blue Cross and Blue Shield you’ll

wind up a very lonely person delirious in a

hospital ward, and

He was taught

If you go to bed with girls they’ll lie and say they’re

pregnant and you’ll wind up having to marry

them, but

She changed her name to Maya, and

He changed his name to Orfeo, and

They’re living in a commune in the country

With collective housekeeping and organically grown

vegetables and the kinds of shatteringly honest

relationships

That are only possible between men and women

Who have renounced flush toilets and the telephone

company, and

As a result of working in the fields, and Washing in

the streams, and

Wearing simple homespun robes they

Have freed their senses from the tyranny of the

intellect, and

Tuned in to the music of the cosmos, and

Plumbed the secret depths of their innermost beings,

but

She’s still putting a little something aside every week,

and

He’s still not lending his jacket…

Just in case.

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