"My uncle of the most honest rules,
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When I fell ill in earnest,
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He forced himself to respect
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And I couldn't think of a better one.
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His example to others is science;
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But my god, what a bore
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With the sick to sit day and night,
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Not leaving a single step away!
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What low deceit
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Amuse the half-dead
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Fix his pillows
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Sad to give medicine
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Sigh and think to yourself:
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When will the devil take you!..”
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A.S. |
Pushkin
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Eat a little, drink a little,
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Eugene lived in captivity of illusions.
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And uncle's corpse has long cooled down
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Among strange plants.
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He watered them sometimes -
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Geranium, hydrangea, aloe.
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Eugene, the coffin, there were two of them,
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And a series of quiet days.
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A trifle rang in the pockets,
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Rockets and beets grew.
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Slowly the blood of the fighters flowed
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To our villages from Afghanistan.
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General secretaries died every year.
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Standing in line since morning
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Heroes of iron and steel
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Forty-degree people.
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In short, they lived light.
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Like Pushkin, the sun shone.
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Onegin, sitting on the push,
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I could enjoy what I had.
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Tatyana rarely came,
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Tried to raise a member and spirit.
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She loved Eugene
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But he was inert and deaf ...
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But liberals, Gorbachev,
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Their cheerful trills
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They blew the brain, saying how much
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Eugene lived in captivity of illusions.
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And pluralism spread
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And hermeneutics spoke
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Ito there will be a new "ism" soon,
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Marching for happiness is not enough!
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But no one could explain
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Us about the responsibility of freedom.
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While everyone was singing, under the guise
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They stole hydrocarbons!
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Then Khan came to everything.
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The Union burned down, collapse and bitterness.
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Chewed Snickers country
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The bastard was in power again.
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Eugene quietly crawled away,
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Running from the trenches of Perestroika.
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He subtly felt and knew
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Apocalyptic Russian troika.
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The coffin howled, itched at night,
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Paranoid in the morning.
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Onegin, deaf to other people's speeches,
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He had conversations with himself.
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About the fact that lies are merged with the truth,
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There is no order and morality,
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About doing whatever you want
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But they didn't tell me what to do.
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How to refuse coffins,
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What's in the heads of strange people?
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As without kissel shores,
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How without milk rivers from the tap?
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I almost forgot about Tatyana.
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She was a teacher.
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With Eugene, bad and drunk,
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With difficulty, but sometimes lived.
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When the change came
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Went to work in the store.
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Her, insensitive to betrayal,
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I took one Georgian to Dubai.
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But slowly got away
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Apologists for perestroika.
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The coffins in the kitchens bloomed
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In captivity of the eastern new building.
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And the frightened people decided -
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Let Putin be better!
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Removed a new turn
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Back to the good old horror.
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Rewritten, as always,
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Coffins, history, knees.
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Geranium, hydrangea, Eugene,
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Sometimes they drank for uncle.
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And he is centuries, as if alive,
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In flowers, habitually something smells.
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That's all until it dies
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The Lord has a different fate for us ...
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Oh yes Pushkin, oh yes son of a bitch!
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Become like Pushkin, don't piss... |