Summary:
Click on the audio link The Cure read by Lola Koundakjian.
Restless, I pace my little room, swing the windows and look out.
The trees on the hill are tossing madly; I watch them, I am thrilled at their madness.
I turn to my bare room satisfied.
Becoming Great
We look at Goethe, and Schiller, huge bronze statues in the park,
and we think, someday we'll be like them -- you Goethe and I Schiller.
Then through narrow park lanes we crawl along, solemn and confident, eloquent and witty, ignoring the boys that pass on bicycles and the girls in shorts carrying tennis rackets.