To Women 14. She Makes Good Food, And She’s Brave. Poem by Konstantin Ananin

- Then that terrible bear
Made me climb a tree. There
I spent a week. It was…
______________________- Wait!
I think you’ve made a mistake
In this incredible story
Or perhaps your style’s too florid.
Bears can climb trees.
____________________- Who says that?
- Everyone!
___________- Grizzlies can’t.
Oh! It was a mortal run!
- You said you’d spent a whole week.
Well-well. What did you eat and drink?
- I could spend time watching
That hungry bear walking
Around my fragile tree
As Ann brought me food and tea.
- Ha! Ridiculous!
________________- I say,
She makes good food, and she’s brave.
- I see! She made that bear tamed!
- What bullshit!
______________- Aren’t your words ‘she’s brave’?
- And what’s in that?
__________________-Nothing besides
Somebody here often lies!