Paterson Poems: The Line | + The Japanese Poet
Paterson is a beautiful movie that contains beautiful poems. And I like to share them. Here is the eighth and last poem, The Line. Plus a conversation between Paterson and a Japanese poet.
The words:
«The Line
There’s an old song
my grandfather used to sing
that has the question,
“Or would you rather be a fish?”
In the same song
is the same question
but with a mule and a pig,
but the one I hear sometimes
in my head is the fish one.
Just that one line.
Would you rather be a fish?
As if the rest of the song
didn’t have to be there.»