# Tbilisi

Анна Александровна Гогина

Now - Tbilisi! Ooh, Tbilisi! Eh, Tbilisi! Ah, Tbilisi! Oh, Tbilisi!

- Excuse me, this is the Prospekt of Shota Rustaveli?

- You do that on purpose, right?

- No, you see, I am first time in this city...

- "I, you see, first time..." - you think, that if a Georgian man is hotheaded, you can tease him?

- No, you see, I am honestly first time...

- "No, you see, I am honestly first time..." Listen, how you could think with your head, that this dirty, crooked, filthy street is the gorgeous Prosperkt of Shota Rustaveli? Listen, don"t do that I flare up, tell me что ты пошутил.

- Well, all right...я пошутил.

- That's it! You are my guest! You came to me, I will take you to meet my mom. We will take a bottle of wine, your eye will become sharp as that of an eagle. We will take a second bottle - and you will hop on the mountains as a mountain goat. We will take a third bottle - и ты в брод перейдёшь across the Kura River. And you will fight with the strongest man Vano Tharteshvili. And then in our arms we will carry you to see the handsome man Tbilisi. You will say: "Dear Didiko, I don"t want to leave, I want to die here.(я не хочу уезжать, я хочу умереть здесь)" I will say: "Зачем умирать? Жина есть? Дети есть? Bring them all over to my house! My home - your home. My horse - your horse." Let"s go, dear, I will take you to meet my mom.