| Whoever ended his life tragically is the true poet!
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| And if at the exact time - so in full:
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| At number 26, one stepped under the gun,
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| The other one got into a noose in Angleterre.
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| And at thirty-three to Christ ... (He was a poet, he said:
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| "Don't kill!" |
| If you kill me, I'll find it everywhere, they say.)
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| But - nails in his hands, so that he does not do anything,
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| To not write and to think less.
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| With the number 37, hops fly off me at the moment.
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| Here and now - how cold it blew:
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| Under this figure, Pushkin guessed a duel
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| And Mayakovsky lay down with his temple on the muzzle.
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| Let's dwell on the number 37! |
| Cunning God -
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| He posed the question point-blank: either — or!
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| Both Byron and Rimbaud lay down on this line,
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| And the current ones somehow slipped through.
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| The duel did not take place or was postponed,
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| And at thirty-three they crucified, but not much.
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| And at thirty-seven it's not blood - why is there blood! |
| - and gray hair
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| I stained the whiskey not so abundantly.
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| “Weak to shoot?! |
| On the heels, they say, a long time ago, the soul left!
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| Patience, psychopaths and whores!
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| Poets walk with their heels on the blade of a knife
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| And they cut their bare souls into blood.
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| The word "long-necked" had three "e"s at the end,
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| Shorten the poet! |
| - the conclusion is clear,
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| And - a knife into him, but he is happy to hang on the edge,
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| Stabbed to death for being dangerous.
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| I pity you, adherents of fatal dates and numbers, -
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| Languish like concubines in a harem!
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| Life span has increased - and maybe the ends
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| The poets moved aside for a while.
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| Yes, it's true, the neck is long - the bait for the noose,
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| And the chest is a target for arrows ... But do not rush:
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| Those who have gone beyond dates have gained immortality,
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| So don't rush the living!
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| <early 1971>
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| Other names:
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| “About numbers and poets”, “Song about poets”
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| "About Poets and Klykush", "To Surviving Poets", "To Poets"
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| "To my friends - poets, or On fatal dates and figures"
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| "About poets and fatal dates and figures"
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| "A Song about Poets, or About Fatal Dates and Figures"
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| “Song about fatal dates and numbers”, “About numbers”
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| “To poets and hysterics”, “To poets and others, but more to poets” |