| Spring in St. Petersburg is good,
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| Just don't look down at your feet.
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| I would still breathe, if only
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| There was air in these lungs.
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| If I hadn't been so squeezed
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| Between the diaphragm and the stars.
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| At the height of your floor
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| In the meanness of a wet sheet.
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| The wind is my guide
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| My one and only friend
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| He calculated everything
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| But my fear is endless.
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| Good luck labeled lost her hands,
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| It's so heartless to leave you alone.
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| One!
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| And I'm still learning how to die
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| Breaking, crippling, angry.
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| Breaking dirt with your feet, fly.
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| I am one of those who survived after the flood.
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| I remember the fashion for alcohol.
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| I started the piano with the Rhodopi.
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| Opal on the fly SU-34 in blocks.
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| By coupons, vodka and cereals with splinters.
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| Wacky comedies, cops and gangsters in droves,
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| Broken windows in the hostel,
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| Tea drinking at minus 30−35 outside,
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| And even worse is the lack of hints of the future.
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| Unitary assistance, distribution at the faculty 9,
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| So that the student does not die of starvation,
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| In order for the children to survive, you get up at 5 in the morning
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| And you will run to cut money, as if from mountain climbers.
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| In the morning there is an offset, in the evening there is a gathering,
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| Pushing the people, that left liquor and vodka.
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| The evening brought more than a scholarship for a year.
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| Dashing nineties - still there were alignments.
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| And I mowed down my fear in cheap beer places,
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| And in libraries, cemeteries of other people's successes.
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| Having won the role of a young father and husband,
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| I only now understand what I was needed there.
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| ... I had an ass,
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| But now I know
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| How now to survive during the flood.
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| Survive the flood.
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| Survive the flood.
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| Survive the flood. |