Less and Less Questions

“… that’s why I’ telling you, I’m sick and tired of all this, and I’ve come out here for “detoxification” (isn’t that how it’s called?), with my four windows wide open onto world, which Falitsa has tidied up with her sweet expression, my dear good Falitsa, yes, yes, you never disturb me, change the roses in all three vases in my room as well as in the dinning-room and in the surgery waiting-room, put two roses on the baby’s scale, but take care not to weigh them; roses must never be weighed on any scale, except in your own tenderness.”

Yannis Ritsos, Less and Less Questions, Iconostasis of Anonymous Saints
Translated by Amy Mims