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THE FLY. Sometimes they happen on garbage dumps.
THE POT. Are they dangerous?
THE FLY. Oh, no. They are totally harmless. First they are yellow for some reason. You can see a cloud on its crown! Then — for some reason — they become white. And then die. THE OLD BOOT. Oh yes, that's sure. I can remember too… A cloud, a cloud… Oh yes, they are useless, because they die rather quickly. Especially when you touch them or blow on them by chance.
THE POT. What a delicacy!
THE LITTLE CARP. So, I'll never swim in the blue sea?
THE MOTH. So, I'll never flutter among the high pine trees?
THE FLY. You can be certain now! I've flown all over the world, I've seen everything. The world is none other then the big garbage dump where sometimes a useless flower grows.
THE POT. What an uninteresting, boring fact!
THE MOTH. Well, I'm off. They say the winter will come some day. It's high time to build a cocoon.
THE OLD BOOT. Oh yes, that's sure. First comes the summer, then the autumn and then the winter is sure to come. It's high time to lace myself up.
THE LITTLE CARP. I will hide myself in the slime.
THE KITTEN. And I'll go somewhere and do something!
THE FLY. That's correct. You must leave it!
EVERYBODY. And we'll surely leave it!
THE KITTEN. But I don't know how to leave anyone…
THE FLY. Oh, it's so easy! It's quite like saving yourself. To leave you must just turn your back. And never run, but just go away slowly, without glancing back.
THE KITTEN. Aha, now I can do that! Soon I'll grow up and begin leaving everybody!
THE DANDELION. Ah!..
THE LITTLE CARP. Have you heard? May be it doesn't want to be left?
THE OLD BOOT. As for me, I've heard nothing…
THE DANDELION. Where am I?
THE MOTH. It is saying something!
THE POT. Probably he is saying something, but we don't hear anything. Is it true, Boot?
THE LITTLE CARP. Who are you?
THE DANDELION. A Dandelion.
THE LITTLE CARP. You see, he named himself. He has the name!
THE DANDELION. Where am I?
THE FLY. Ha-ha-ha! He is so stupid! He doesn't understand anything! He doesn't know where is he! He doesn't know what it is! Tis the World! Ha-ha-ha!
THE DANDELION. The world! I love the world!
THE FLY. He doesn't know yet that the world is the big garbage dump!
THE DANDELION. There is something that irritates my eyes…
THE FLY. Have you heard that? He doesn't feel yet! This is the light!
THE DANDELION. The light… I love the light!
THE FLY. Look at this fool! He doesn't how the sun can blind you.
THE DANDELION. Oh, what's happening to me? There is something moving inside me…
THE FLY. Ha-ha-ha! He still hasn't an idea! It is life!
THE DANDELION. Life!.. I love life so much!
THE FLY. He doesn't understand that he will die soon!
THE DANDELION. The world… light… life… I have light, the world and life. Seems I can understand it!
THE FLY. Poor thing! He is totally a beggar!
THE MOTH. And he hasn't any high pine-tree…
THE LITTLE CARP. Oh, yes, now I'm sure that he hasn't any blue lake!
THE MOTH. I've no where to flutter!
THE LITTLE CARP. I've no where to swim.
EVERYBODY. He has nothing. He is a beggar.
THE DANDELION. You have to fly? You need wings? Take my leaves. They will hold you in the air…
THE MOTH. Wings! I have new wings!
THE DANDELION. Take some of my golden hair. They will serve you for fins.
THE LITTLE CARP. Golden fins! I have golden fins!
THE MOTH. Look! Look! I'm rising! I'm flying!
EVERYBODY. Flying! Flying! What can you see there, Moth?
THE MOTH. The sun!
EVERYBODY. The sun! Rise higher. What more can you see?
THE MOTH. The world!
EVERYBODY. The world! What does it look like?
THE MOTH. It is wonderful!
EVERYBODY. Higher! Higher! What can you see behind the thistles?
THE MOTH. I can see… Ah! You are so small! Oh, no, I'm sinking. I have forgotten how to fly! I'm so excited!
THE LITTLE CARP. Here are my golden fins! I can make miracles!
EVERYBODY. Make a miracle, Moth!
THE LITTLE CARP. I want… want… No, I order! I order my fins to glare like the sun!
EVERYBODY. Ah!
THE MOTH. Seems I'm rising once more! Oh yes, I'm flying!