Asia Is Larger Than a Novel 2

To live is to forgive, To the girl who wears makeup over her vacuum cleaner, To the shy writer who won the Nobel Prize, To the growing silence of Icelandic whales and sperm whales, To live is to forgive, Joseph Kessel, Beatrice, To the panther-sized dancer, Who leaves you on Valentine’s Day, For touching you that you are not the center of the world, Like Joseph Kessel, nor Edgar Allan Poe or Baudelaire. To live is to forgive. Asia is larger than a novel by Joseph Kessel.