picturepeople #34

un-happiness

someone (1) said
all people
are happy
in much the same way
but each of us
unhappy (and were you
for a moment
smiling, looking
at this specific unhappiness
all looking much the same
way?)
in their own special way.
bullshit.

(1)
a) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
b) Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy
c) Michail Bulgakow
d) Chingiz Aitmatov
e) Alexander Poushkin
f) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
g) etc.