# To my legaties

Ольга Слободкина

You'll be selling my poems and images for TV and online

laughing at your old aunt Olya who is no longer,

who had those silly little thoughts,

which can make money now...


But one day you, Alice,

will burst out crying

over one line

without having an idea

why you're doing so...


And you, Peter,

will suddenly gasp

at a landscape

taken

in the past century

by a plastic automatic film camera...


We all live

to have these uncontrolled moments

of rapture or tears...


While your old silly aunt

will be in the spheres

both unattainable

and indescribable...


Sept. 22, 2013