{"id":183872,"date":"2021-07-26T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=183872"},"modified":"2021-07-14T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T05:11:09","slug":"possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

I prefer movies.<\/p>\n

I prefer cats.<\/p>\n

I prefer the oaks along the Warta.<\/p>\n

I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.<\/p>\n

I prefer myself liking people<\/p>\n

to myself loving mankind.<\/p>\n

I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.<\/p>\n

I prefer the color green.<\/p>\n

I prefer not to maintain<\/p>\n

that reason is to blame for everything.<\/p>\n

I prefer exceptions.<\/p>\n

I prefer to leave early.<\/p>\n

I prefer talking to doctors about something else.<\/p>\n

I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.<\/p>\n

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems<\/p>\n

to the absurdity of not writing poems.<\/p>\n

I prefer, where love\u2019s concerned, nonspecific anniversaries<\/p>\n

that can be celebrated every day.<\/p>\n

I prefer moralists<\/p>\n

who promise me nothing.<\/p>\n

I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.<\/p>\n

I prefer the earth in civvies.<\/p>\n

I prefer conquered to conquering countries.<\/p>\n

I prefer having some reservations.<\/p>\n

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.<\/p>\n

I prefer Grimms\u2019 fairy tales to the newspapers\u2019 front pages.<\/p>\n

I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.<\/p>\n

I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.<\/p>\n

I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.<\/p>\n

I prefer desk drawers.<\/p>\n

I prefer many things that I haven\u2019t mentioned here<\/p>\n

to many things I\u2019ve also left unsaid.<\/p>\n

I prefer zeroes on the loose<\/p>\n

to those lined up behind a cipher.<\/p>\n

I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.<\/p>\n

I prefer to knock on wood.<\/p>\n

I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.<\/p>\n

I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility<\/p>\n

that existence has its own reason for being.<\/p>\n

______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

From the volume <\/em>Poems New and Collected<\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/a>), translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Maria Wis\u0142awa Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and <\/em>recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nI prefer the oaks along the Warta.
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