Lady on a Streetcar
Sandro Penna
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
You’d like to kiss your boy who doesn’t want to:
He’d like instead to look at life outside.
You’re disappointed then, but still you smile:
At least it doesn't ache like jealousy,
Even though he already looks just like
The other who “to look at life outside”
Left you like this.
The Original:
Donna in Tram
Vuoi baciare il tuo bimbo che non vuole:
ama guardare la vita, di fuori.
Tu sei delusa allora, ma sorridi:
non è l'angoscia della gelosia
anche se già somiglia egli all'altr'uomo
che per «guardare la vita, di fuori»
ti ha lasciata così...
Sandro Penna
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
You’d like to kiss your boy who doesn’t want to:
He’d like instead to look at life outside.
You’re disappointed then, but still you smile:
At least it doesn't ache like jealousy,
Even though he already looks just like
The other who “to look at life outside”
Left you like this.
The Original:
Donna in Tram
Vuoi baciare il tuo bimbo che non vuole:
ama guardare la vita, di fuori.
Tu sei delusa allora, ma sorridi:
non è l'angoscia della gelosia
anche se già somiglia egli all'altr'uomo
che per «guardare la vita, di fuori»
ti ha lasciata così...
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Excellent, dear Foreman! Your work as a translator is really important.
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