# I had to make that take

Ольга Слободкина

I had to make that take,

although I had lots of such images already -

it was the fire head

of the setting Sun

above the black buildings

criss-crossed by wires.


The clouds made it a little mat

and the trace from the plane

drew a white blirred horizontal line.


I had to make that take -

just to get my mind off my life,

off the cowardish, mean, brutal, crasy

and hypocritical people

that surrounded me.


I had to make it to forget

all the frustrations

and disappointments

of my long traumatic way.


I had to make it -

to cheer up and tell myself:

tomorrow it will be better...


March 20, 2009