Tasos Livaditis – Poems, Volume II

Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards

Biography

I must, surely, change my life otherwise

I’m lost. However, I still have lots of time

I’m still young. If I could escape from this

daily routine, obligations, habits and

concessions, if I could be not as fast in the excuses,

especially, if I stopped all the endless postponements

then, truly, I could accomplish something, in fact

I would be able to accomplish what I dreamed

when I was a child.

With trembling hands, he was writing this

as he was crying one night. Then he felt sleepy

and fell asleep; he vaguely remembered some

of this next morning. In a few years, he died.

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