| When we met with you, the bird cherry blossomed and the music played softly in the park.
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| And then I was still quite a few years old, and I managed to do a lot of things.
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| I sculpted lope after lope, and in the morning I threw flowers left and right for you.
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| And you loved me and often said: "Thieves' life is worse than poison."
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| But the days became shorter, and the birds flew away to where only the sun laughs,
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| And with them my happiness flew away forever; |
| I realized that it would never return.
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| Once you were standing in the square with a mincemeat; |
| he was drunk, hugging you with his arm.
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| He reached out to kiss, asked you to surrender, and you nodded your head in response.
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| Everything became cloudy in me, and my heart beat so fast, and I, like a drunken fraer, staggered.
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| Then I don’t remember how I ended up in a tavern, drinking and drinking vodka, and drunken tears
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| washed up.
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| Then one night I got in your way, recognizing me, you turned very pale.
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| I asked him to step aside, and the steel of the knife gleamed ominously.
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| I remember how lights flickered in the square all night, and garbage all night in the garden
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| whistled.
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| Alone, I staggered at the pier until dawn, and your eyes looked at my back.
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| I decided to fill my short love with vodka, but I was afraid to steal, oddly enough.
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| But I got involved with a stupid story, and somehow I was taken by a task force to a bath at a restaurant.
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| I’m sitting in my cell, I’ve got five, when this case suddenly came to light.
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| And then one morning my defender, the old man, said: "You must not escape execution."
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| And tomorrow my last sentence will be read to me, and again we will see you.
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| And in the morning they will take me to our prison yard, and there I will close my eyes forever. |