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. |