# No, I don't need to

Ольга Слободкина

No, I don't need to

sit down,

take a fresh piece of paper,

divide it by half,

put down

all the pluses and minuses of my life

and think

what I can possibly do

about the minuses...


No, I don't need that kind of thing...

for some of the global minuses

cut my life in half

the way the horizon line

is cutting the world

into the sea and the sky...


The horizon line

is just there -

one cannot do anything about it.


One can like it

or dislike it -

it wouldn't care.


It's just cutting the world in two -

nonchalantly...


It disappears

when the Sun is set.

During the night time

you can't see it,

but it's there anyway -

you know that.

And the fact

does not change

the real state of things.


While in the mor-

ning

again

you will see the world

cut in two

by one of your global minuses...


Feb. 4, 2014