| I remember the hour of conception inaccurately.
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| So my memory is one-sided.
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| But I was conceived at night, viciously,
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| And he didn't show up ahead of time.
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| I was born not in pain, not in malice,
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| Nine months is not years.
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| I served my first term in the womb:
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| There is nothing good there.
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| Thank you saints
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| What spat and blew,
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| What if my parents
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| They planned to conceive me
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| In those times secluded
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| Now - almost epic,
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| When the deadlines are huge
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| Wandered in stages long.
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| They were taken on the night of conception,
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| And many even earlier
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| But the brethren live -
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| My honest company.
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| I go, my thoughts are frisky, I go,
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| Word, little lines, dear, word!
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| For the first time I got freedom
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| By decree of the thirty-eighth.
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| I would like to know who has been murmuring for so long -
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| I would play on the scoundrel,
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| But I was born and lived and survived,
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| House on First Meshchanskaya at the end.
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| There behind the wall, behind the wall,
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| Behind the partition
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| Neighbor with neighbor
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| They indulged in vodka.
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| Everyone lived on a par, modestly like this:
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| corridor system,
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| For thirty-eight rooms -
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| There is only one restroom.
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| Here the tooth did not fall,
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| The bodysuit did not warm. |
| Here I knew for sure
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| How much is she, a penny.
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| The neighbor was not afraid of the siren,
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| And her mother got used to it little by little.
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| And I spat, a healthy three-year-old,
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| To this air alert.
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| Yes, not everything that is above from God -
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| And the people put out the lighters.
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| And, as a small help to the front,
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| My sand and leaky pitcher.
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| And the sun beat in three streams,
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| Sifted through the holes in the roofs
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| On Evdokim Kirillich
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| And Kisya Moiseevna.
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| She told him: How are the sons? |
| -
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| Yes, missing!
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| Eh, Kitty, we are one family,
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| You are also affected.
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| You are victims too
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| And that means Russified.-
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| Mine are the fallen
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| Yours - innocently sat down.
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| I've gone from diapers and nipples
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| Lived - not forgotten, not abandoned.
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| And they teased me "bastard",
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| Even though I was normal.
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| I tried to break the disguise
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| - Prisoners are driven - why are we trembling?
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| Our fathers returned, brothers
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| At home, in their own and others.
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| Aunt Zina has a blouse
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| With dragons and snakes -
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| That at Popov Vovchik
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| Father came with trophies.
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| Trophy Japan,
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| Trophy Germany:
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| The country of Limonia has come -
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| Solid suitcase.
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| Borrowed from my father at the station |
| Shoulder straps, like tsatski, I
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| And from the evacuation
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| The crowd poured out civilians.
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| They looked around, looked around,
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| They hungover, then sobered up.
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| And those who waited wept
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| Those who didn't wait roared.
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| Father Vitkin and Genka began to dig the subway,
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| We asked: why? |
| - He answered
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| Like, the corridors end with a wall,
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| And the tunnels lead to light.
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| Papa's prophecy
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| Did not listen to Vitka with a sidekick:
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| From our corridor
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| He went into the prison corridor.
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| Yes, he has always been a wrangler:
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| lean against the wall - refuse
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| He passed through the corridor
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| And ended up with a wall, it seems.
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| But fathers have their minds
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| And as for us,
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| We looked at life
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| Quite independently.
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| Everyone - from us to almost one-year-olds
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| The talker was led to bloodshed,
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| And in the basements and semi-basements
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| The kids wanted under the tanks.
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| They didn't even get a bullet,
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| Do not grieve in a craft.
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| Neither dare, nor take risks, but they took a chance -
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| Make knives out of files.
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| They stick in the lungs
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| Black from nicotine
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| Lightweight by the handle
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| Tricolor dials.
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| Conducted exchange business
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| Snot guards:
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| At the construction site, the Germans were prisoners |
| They exchanged knives for bread.
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| At first they played candy wrappers,
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| In the wall with crumbs,
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| And the romance is gone
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| From the gates of thieves.
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| There was a time and there were cellars,
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| There was a case and the prices were reduced.
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| And flowed where necessary, channels
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| And in the end, where necessary, they fell.
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| Children of former foremen and majors
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| We climbed to the ice latitudes,
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| Because from all the corridors
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| They seemed more comfortable downstairs. |