I will climb on the table in the tavern and
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I read poems from there to you
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With anguish
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Lackeys will load the capital
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Cry over beer
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Hops and malt taste better with salt
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Tears in the foam will not interfere
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So I'll climb on the table in the tavern and
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With anguish I read poems to you from there
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I am just like you, absolutely
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You can hear it in every quatrain
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And, denoting our similarity in public
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So that everyone can see, I climb higher
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Like a soldier who climbed without a helmet on the parapet
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Catching a shot with your skull
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So one day I'll get to the chandelier
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And over the whole world I will hang baptized
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And the twenties will continue
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without muddying the water
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And alien to the people
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of decadent poets
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The deck will be cleared of extra cards
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Sixes-sexots
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In uniform idiots
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Fools in epaulettes
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The days of the Turbins are numbered, and instead of the bast huts
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Skyscrapers and pipes: we look at them from the depths
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Like fish to the moon, and I sing for the native bottom
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His romance "antique" in the spirit of Boris Fomin
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In "Evil Notes" by the editor-in-chief of Pravda, I will appear posthumously as a dandy
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A wino without a shadow of talent, a miserable internal emigrant
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Rhyming drunken nonsense, but the chief editor will not take into account one
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The fact that his “Pravda” will be wiped off in a hundred years
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The table will shake under me - I will fly upside down:
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Someone will pull on the trouser leg, involving in a scuffle
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And the tavern floor will call the policeman
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Here it is, my daring gift; |
yes, that's the power of the word
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Tomorrow I will climb again, like a stubborn climber
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You verses under your nose slipping ammonia
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Again on the head - a bottle, under the feet - a parapet:
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Come on, enemy sniper, show your art
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And the twenties will continue
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without muddying the water
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And alien to the people
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of decadent poets
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The deck will be cleared of extra cards
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Sixes-sexots
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In uniform idiots
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Fools in epaulettes |