FLY IN THE SPACE
YOU'RE IN!
Poem for Today - Saturday June 14, 2014
EXAMPLE
A butterfly flew between the cars.
Marie Jose said: it must be Chuang Tzu,
Marie Jose said: it must be Chuang Tzu,
on a tour of New
York.
But the butterfly
didn’t know it was a butterfly
dreaming it was Chuang Tzu
or Chuang Tzu
dreaming he was a butterfly.
The butterfly never wondered:
The butterfly never wondered:
It flew.
EJEMPLO
La mariposa volaba entre los autos.
Marie Jose me dijo: ha der ser Chuang Tzu,
de paso por Nueva York.
Pero la mariposa
no sabia que era una mariposa
que sonaba ser Chuang Tzu
o Chuang Tzu
que sonaba ser una mariposa.
La mariposa no dudaba:
volaba.
© Octavio Paz,
Page 488-489
In The Collected
Poems of Octavio Paz,
1957-1987
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