| And there will be healing bread,
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| Like nothing, like an ellipsis.
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| And my full summer
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| namesake,
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| The same name.
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| Lips in a tube
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| Needle thread.
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| Not life, but Sorochinskaya Fair
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| They loved hard, they grieved bitterly,
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| They threw up a burnt spark.
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| Painted the houses with drunken colors,
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| They were called milk mushrooms, climbed into the body.
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| They wandered around the worlds like lice on the backs of their heads,
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| Triumphantly wandered through unwashed glasses,
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| For busy minds
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| Over frightened bodies
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| Damp ceilings.
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| They fell out one after another, like baby teeth,
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| They breathed and screamed.
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| Bubbled with firewood trifles
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| In bulging pockets of wooden jackets.
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| Ebullient, mighty, unbeatable by anyone,
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| Like pots burned by the gods.
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| And behind the backs lurked skis in the hallway,
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| Sled,
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| Sled,
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| Fairy tales,
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| Arabesques.
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| On the seventh day, everything stopped him!
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| Let everything flourish with the guts out
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| North, west, south, east!
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| Let it be sudden!
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| Let it be unheard of!
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| Let it straight from the throat!
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| Let it straight from the mirror!
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| Ugly burst from under the skin
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| Wood and meat fibers!
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| My self-willed absurd joy!
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| Amazing spring!
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| To peck goggle-eyed grain at sunset,
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| Kiss unstoppable palms at dawn,
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| Stomp your foot and all the windows and doors will fly out,
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| Eyes,
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| forks,
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| spoons,
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| And folding pocket knives.
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| Another fierce love story.
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| A sad story about a piggy bank.
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| A hilarious anecdote about how Svidrigailov was going to America.
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| Lucky, like a mirror reflecting a fire.
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| New Year's, like a full moon, sweaty clenched in a fist.
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| Long-awaited, like a ringing snake ring.
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| The only one, like a casually thrown word.
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| Wonderful, like a hundred self-imposed years of solitude. |