lukaszpoznanski: How do I make a Polish girl cry? My new Polish girlfriend (who, by the way, is named Kasia, is Catholic, smokes cigarettes and likes all things American), is always upbeat and cheerful. This is highly annoying. I've tried everything to upset her, but nothing seems to work. Help?!
Why would you want to do that? Your girlfriend sounds awesome, I wish I had a Polish girl like that which I only dream of having been single my entire life...
lol anyway, read her this poem of mine, I read it at a poetry reading and it made some people cry:
Happiness
To be a plain Polish [original verse English] woman—over the hill, scrawny,
not a very good poet; to live in the countryside
with a man who is cooling (weak heart, renal cancer—
the reasons do not matter). To carry up the staircase
(the musty, narrow staircase) a tray with his breakfast,
and yourself. Write: It’s your birthday
next week—a fly buzzes—
this time next year—it buzzes—I think—now he’s screaming
in agony—you’ll be gone. Go to him and stroke him.
Lie in bath with him, weeping. To gaze in dramatic
although genuine fashion at trees through the window.
To have those years behind you, those letters, those lovers,
to know his collar size, show size, and the hat in inches.
To be unable to look at any other fellow.
To use those special phrases, all those tender pet names.
And to pretend he’s just as good in bed as ever,
remembering the many times and ways and places;
in crushed berries, in a hammock, on the express speeding
to Monaco from Venice, on his own desktop,
in the museum side room. To receive the visits
of dear old friends and doctors. Whisk egg yolks and sugar.
Be unable to keep pretending, and go on pretending.
But chiefly to be certain that every past moment
could not, should not have happened differently, with another,
somewhere else or sometime else—this is happiness.
You have seen the whole thing through. Now you’re leaving, slowly
plucking leaves from the branches. Someone veils the mirror,
someone calls, someone’s talking. The tray. The bath. The bed.
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