| Dashing proletarians, having eaten vodka with a kilechka,
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| They rush to their undergrounds to establish a struggle, -
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| And I'm lying in the herbarium, pinned to the board with a hairpin,
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| And I scratch the tree with my fingers until it hurts.
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| I'm writhing on a carnation, but I don't change my position.
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| Around - dung beetles and small dragonflies, -
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| I was familiar from childhood - I caught them, dug,
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| He pressed, - but now I myself got into insects.
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| Under all the exhibits there are enamel planks,
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| Everything is strictly scientific - the class and type are indicated ...
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| I was lying with these guys in a glass jar,
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| We fought - it's for the best: I found out who is poisonous.
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| I mentally imagine myself in a big bed, -
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| But under me is written: "Unseen before" ...
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| I was a homo reader, I was a sapiens,
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| My class is a mammal, and the species ... already forgot
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| Was it blowing in my face, in my back, in a pea coat or in a robe I -
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| He strove, dyed with blood, as they called, to the hut, -
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| But on you - pushed into visual aids -
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| I am angry and dumbfounded hanging on the wall.
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| Decorated as marriageable, I'm ashamed, like a student, -
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| Solid bumblebees are buzzing that it is necessary to obey,
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| And butterflies giggle at a strange exhibit, | 
| Centipedes grunt and pupae sting.
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| My former brethren are moving towards me with fear -
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| Two-legged, intelligent, - two write - three in the mind.
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| They will write Izhitsu - their eyes are not tender, -
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| One squeamishly pointed at me and brought out a summary:
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| “So, contacts have not been established with him, and we are not waiting for them,”
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| That is why, citizens, he lies among insects.
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| Thinking is not developed in him, and Che-Pe is always with him, -
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| And here he can, perhaps, spin on the navel.
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| They take it, don't they?!  | 
| — I was not found in the field!
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| This is a stupid mistake - you will see a flaw, -
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| They will punish those who confused, they will force them to reject,
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| And I will fall into the subgroup of at least monkeys.
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| No, not a mistake - the action took place on me, -
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| So that I start to grovel down with my belly, up my back, -
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| Here I lie, disheveled, drawn,
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| Intentionally classified as a creeping beetle.
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| The worm does not bow with me, but the gadflies with horseflies
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| They have an aversion to dunghills, -
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| Snobby creatures are content with gossip,
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| And I need communication with people like me!
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| He warmed up a dystrophic cricket - a flea blurted out, a nit, - | 
| And lo and behold - two grated bugs from the third subspecies, -
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| The half-strangled cricket whistled at half strength,
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| But disturbed by two nails, he sat down.
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| Or maybe everything will be checked and seasoned with sauce ...
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| In the end, after all, a plank is not a block, they say, -
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| Everything will fall in love and endure, I even began to like
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| Young sedge and silkworm cocoon.
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| Yes, I am pleased with wasps - they do not smell like a dog,
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| Among them there are individuals with an aspen waist.
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| And by the way, suddenly something will be born from a cocoon
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| Such that from curls and that has a chest ...
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| The spider burrows on my brain, the bugs are swarming - there is no rest,
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| A beautiful wasp dances as a bride ...
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| Let something brew, and there - at least for three carnations -
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| And from three nails, as usual, the road is to heaven.
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| In my frowning brain, fear pours over the wrinkles:
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| The hornet will be my brother-in-law - but what will become my son? ..
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| But I really don’t want the drone to be my father-in-law!
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| It's time already, it's time to strain and rise!
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| When alive we were poked with sharp pins -
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| The bees flapped their wings, the ants squeaked,
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| Together we mumbled grief - all pierced with needles - | 
| Let us forget who we were, my comrades!
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| I am a little arrogant, but there is a lump of bitterness in my throat:
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| Understand, I, a biped, got into insects!
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| But who will save us, help us out, who will take us off the board?!
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| Follow me - get off the hairpins, fellow citizens of the beetles!
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| And, as always in history, we arched our backs at once, -
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| Though the wasps and gundosili, but whoever is strong is right, -
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| We first drove out bedbugs from our territory
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| And they threw the spiders behind an old bookcase.
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| The scandal will then subside, but we are all at home,
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| And they are doing, it seems, not at all an insect.
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| And I - I'm basking in the bath without any offense there ...
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| It's a pity, another one has already been nailed over my plank. |