What plagues me

Alex! why don't you want cartoons based on your poems and plays?
--i want that a lot
--so what keeps you from learning the animation programs and making cartoons all day and all night? unlike poetry, cartoons are loved by everyone
you could make a fortune
quite your hateful job
with bums and junkies?

Al-lie! What keeps you from learning Chinese
translating your works into it
and sending all over the Great China?
the largest market in the world
hundreds of new publications
will you really be sour if you gain just another billion of fans?

Sasha! And what in the world is so difficult about learning guitar
and bellowing your poems at the Moon
sell CDs, play gigs
too little money? ok, write some gangsta rap
the crowd will just munch on it
and so many babes will be yours, you won't be able to handle them!

Sashulya! do you like musicals?
what's wrong with a Broadway show
find a producer or a sponsor
the world's capital will be all covered with your billboards
is that too shabby?

actually, why are we flying so low?
you deserve a feature length Hollywood blockbuster
again, find a screenwriter and a producer,
and the Earth will be covered by human flood of viewers flocking to your film
in process making you a millionaire

the possibilities unbounded dizzy me
why, oh why
am i not doing any of these?
WHAT PLAGUES ME?!


original--Саша Гальпер, "ЧТО МНЕ МЕШАЕТ"