The bells rang. |
And horses in hot soap
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The cart was carried towards the virgin lands.
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You, my poor friend, were blinded that evening
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Two black lanterns under a broken pince-nez.
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There was a fight for death. |
They fought for a place
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And the right to vomit at the wedding table.
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Rushing to become everything at once, raping the bride,
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They shot at random and climbed ahead.
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Today your city has become a holiday postcard.
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The classic union of cloves and bayonet.
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Mended with tight, harsh, red thread
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All the holes in your rotten coat.
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Under the radio strike of the Moscow alarm
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On the wedding sheets that dry in the corners
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Expanded blood, as a symbol of a passionate date,
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Mixed in wine with sins in half.
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My friend, others are here. |
We are not far from them.
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Zealous eunuchs. |
Silent string.
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The crippled palaces stretched their shoulders to the sky.
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Neva is beating from the wound. |
Empty sleeves.
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Turn your cheek to the rain in the traces of past slaps.
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The trouble would keep us, how we keep it.
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But the memory is torn into battle. |
And spinning like a counter
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Descending above you and turning into a halo.
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That's how it twisted us and tightly tied
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A beautiful scarlet bow with a bloody bandage.
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And the wedding in the funnels flew to the stations.
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And the paths trembled. |
And parted in the cross.
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Mustachioed "cheers" of someone else's, bad will
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Peter's boat was spinning like a squirrel in a wheel.
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We were looking for the wind of Nevsky and in the Champs Elysees
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And they got used to calling the Fontanka - the Yenisei.
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You bring the bridge of teeth under loose plaster,
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But the dome of the forehead is cracking with deathly anguish.
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Thunderstorm, fireworks and we! |
- and we fly over St. Petersburg,
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Weaving the spire of the string into the lattice of bad dreams.
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Flying through the times that bent the country
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in the ram's horn
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And they drank from it.
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Everyone drank from it - and you and I drank
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For conscience and for fear.
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For everyone. |
For those who were licked off by the rough blockade with their tongues.
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For those who did not have time to say goodbye, leaving.
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My friend, take off your pants and naked Summer Garden
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Accept your guilt under the rods of the rain.
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Amending the dry law, rain in a marble bowl
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Pours black and thick autumn moonshine.
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My friend "Fatherland" repeats like "Our Father",
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But something from myself sent him after him.
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Fireworks outside the windows. |
Tsar-Pushkin in a new frame.
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The dead don't drink, but we wouldn't spill it.
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Double-headed eagles with beaten wings
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They cannot share the crown among themselves.
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Similarity of a star in the image of a cigarette butt.
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Light up, my friend, take it easy, don't rush.
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My poor friend, from the bottom of your soul
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The heart of St. Petersburg beats with its hoof.
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The heart of St. Petersburg beats with its hoof.
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The heart of St. Petersburg beats with its hoof. |