| The dugout is stuffed with wires
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| Dozens of monitors, like an insect retina
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| And strangers swarm on the screens
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| Insects-pedestrians, indifferent, like robots
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| He enters without turning on the light; |
| he is the boss here
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| He puts down tea, prefers to sit down first
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| After all, he is no longer young, he has experience behind him
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| And every year he feels death more and more
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| But before his eyes the whole human network, the whole human essence:
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| Cameras broadcast and the earth rotates
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| Glare in the pupils can not be counted:
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| He is the supreme observer, and this is a great honor
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| And he sits in front of a glowing wall of displays
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| Frozen, like a lizard in the heat, and stares
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| For another it would be scary and dark,
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| And he, staring, wonderfully stares at the bottomless telly
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| Labyrinths, corridors on monitors
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| Sodomites, fractures, parties, overdoses
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| Debtors and creditors, from the elite to the bottom
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| He watches and monitors the many-sided crowd
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| Somewhere three foreheads are beating the patient
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| Putting on a frill, painted like a clown
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| Somewhere they bury the children of an exemplary orphanage,
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| But behind them the grandfather looks out of the telescope
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| And only when the light of the lanterns behind the curtains goes out
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| He adjusts the yellow armband on his sleeve
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| And, having locked up his dugout tightly for the night, into the distance
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| He leaves, knocking on the asphalt with a white stick |