| Oh, how I wanted, boy,
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| Ride a bike.
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| Not for children, not for three-wheelers, -
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| Adult bike!
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| And rush towards the pines -
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| There, where the pines and spruce, -
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| And to look out of the window
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| Envying me, neighbors -
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| Look, look, look
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| Look, the boy is going
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| On an adult bike!..
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| ... A boy was driving along the street
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| On an adult bike.
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| - Narkomovsky Petka, smart girl, -
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| Neighbors whispered around.
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| I shouted - let me ride! |
| -
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| And he did not answer anything,
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| He drove slowly, slowly
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| And I would fly like the wind
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| And I would ring a bell
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| And I would pedal
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| I would rush past the windows -
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| And if only they would see me!..
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| ... Now I have in front
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| The bicycle is gathering dust
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| It's probably getting dusty
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| For a good ten years.
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| But only that boy
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| There is no more in the world,
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| And for an adult, I don't need
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| adult bike!
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| Oh, how I want, as an adult,
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| Touch the book with your fingers
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| And read the name on the cover,
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| Not someone else's, but mine!..
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| Can't revive the boy
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| Consider - died in battle ...
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| But if you can't - the boy,
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| And not a single step into the past,
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| Is it possible to have a book?! |
| Book!
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| Her - why not?!
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| Majestic as a flourish
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| He kept books under his arm.
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| - Hello, friend-scammer,
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| Hello, new book!
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| Party Iliad!
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| Gift holujazh!
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| I don't need it like that, I don't need it -
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| Let a thousand be the entire circulation!
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| Expensive with dust jacket?
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| To hell with the jacket!
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| But there is no dust jacket
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| And there is no binding.
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| ... It will pass a little, a little,
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| Some thirty years.
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| And here it is, this book,
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| Not in the future, in this century!
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| The boy takes it off
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| From the shelf in the library!
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| And you said - nonsense!
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| But thirty years later...
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| Gathering dust in my front
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| adult bike. |