| It’s good to read cute books by the light of a lamp,
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| Review the prints and strum along the keys.
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| Tickling brains and feelings with the charm of beauty,
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| Pouring the fragrant honey of art into the abyss of Russian emptiness.
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| In books, life amuses all its guests with a wide feast,
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| Surrounding them with a side dish of both suffering and passions.
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| Laughter, struggle and change. |
| Every tuft is torn out with meat,
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| And we have corners and walls, and above them there is a ceiling.
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| But under an hour, not believing the myths, you are waiting for personal events,
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| To fall ill with typhus, to make something of a brawl.
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| In the books the genius of the Solovyovs, Heine, Goethe and Zola,
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| And around the Ivanovs the earth trembles.
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| On the canvases of the Magdalene, the dream of the Madonnas, Venus and Phryne,
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| And all around are the crooked backs of dull-eyed Akulins.
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| Where are the events of our life, except for the common cold and fleas,
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| We have long been living like slugs in the poverty of random crumbs.
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| We sleep and whimper in a sport, not worrying, not loving,
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| Looking for God, looking for the devil, having lost ourselves.
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| And from morning until late at night, everything from crumbs to old women,
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| Having deepened the eyes into the pages, they tease the spirit with an unprecedented.
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| In the sounds of music, suffering, the battle of love and the whisper of dreams,
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| And all around there is only mooing, groaning and snoring and whistling of vines.
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| From what? |
| Shut up and breathe. |
| Rock is the master, you are just a slave.
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| Spit, go blind and deaf and toss and turn like a crab.
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| It’s good to read cute books by the light of a lamp,
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| Review the prints and strum along the keys. |