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SORRY DAVID DAVID I AM SO SORRY by Francesca Chabrier & Emily Hunt Click for full video >

SORRY DAVID DAVID I AM SO SORRY

by Francesca Chabrier & Emily Hunt

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(Source: jubilat.org)

Postcard from Langston Hughes to David Amram.

poetrysociety: You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You’ll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses. You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there’s no ship for you, there’s no road. Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.C. P Cavafy, from The City, translated by Edmund KeeleyCavafy etching by David Hockney, 1967

poetrysociety:

You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.

C. P Cavafy, from The City, translated by Edmund Keeley
Cavafy etching by David Hockney, 1967