I Sit By The Window Comments
I said fate plays a game without a score,
and who needs fish if you've got caviar?
The triumph of the Gothic style would come to pass
and turn you on--no need for coke, or grass.
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The last two lines are my favorite. The rhyme scheme seemingly odd but yet enjoyable...this poem seems like it would be a hard style to replicate and a hard style to write in. A classical twist on portraying a character through their actions and evaluations of random particles of life.
Actually, these two lines don't agree with the original. In the original it's 'I am sitting in the darkness and the darkness inside the room is not worse than outside'.
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7/21/2025 7:12:40 AM # 1.0.0
Very happy to be able to read this poem by Brodsky in English.