What will the sleeping guide tell me?
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Empty, rattling glasses
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On the compartment table by the window,
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Rushing past the station fluttering in the dark.
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Menta smoking in fist
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snow-covered desert, more precisely - depths.
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Where, like a drunk, stupid student,
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shyly turning out his pockets, -
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our peace before the Lord is bowed down.
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When she meets me - cheerful, without makeup,
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will the lines appear on the sheet
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papers that I crumpled and dragged
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in his head, as in a wastebasket,
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believing the noble pantomime - its silent beauty?
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When the minutes become long arms
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inevitable death,
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How will we measure time?
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What will we play with the wind, clouds - alone in the middle of winter?
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What will my motherland tell me
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with floating pieces on the screen
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Frozen love, February blizzard,
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in the empty and dark abyss of the pupil
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through the expanding star sawmill?
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With technical water, sour in the tap,
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in the broken syringe of a skinny junkie,
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that wakes up in the toilet, yawning,
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and looks at the fields.
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The guard by the road is a chubby snowman,
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looking vigilantly with black coals
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on an old truck that slipped into a pit,
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and a dull mat, and a cry full of life.
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The children sparkle brightly,
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devoid of abstract thinking,
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destroying the world of ridiculous symbols,
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this look without interfering with anything else,
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sweeps us away like rubbish from the yard.
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What will the beggar old woman tell me
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on an evil platform, with a full pot
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boiled potatoes -
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annoying fly,
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getting wet under rudeness, like under boiling water?
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Behind the train it minces tiredly -
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eyes full of separation and labor,
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hands true to forgiveness and affection.
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- Sons, food ... - he says in a barely audible voice, -
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who, sons, children, is in trouble.
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What these cities will tell me:
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High-rise buildings, warehouses, someone's holes,
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Animated graffiti garages
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and gray concrete fences?
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Dull, unfaithful environment
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all days of the week, catches trains,
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that she was bored to death.
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Outskirts of this dirty rest
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no one appreciates, hard to believe,
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that so many generations are in the blood of this milk.
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But where the third is, there are two more nearby,
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and the church and the maternity hospital are glowing like a candle.
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Where are they all going? |
What does it entail
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all of us in these distant spaces,
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that in these cities suicidal
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where exactly is everything and everyone so fond of counting?
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Everything is there, of course, except for trifles,
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that eternity is especially loved.
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And I want to forgive my wits,
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into the space of those who have thrown:
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"NO, WE ARE NOT SLAVES!" |