Transitions №3
Author: Vsevolod Nekrasov
Translated by Ian Probstein
* * *
this
is in case if to the other world
yes
but if no
did you think
you’d better think
oh no
you haven’t thought about it
* * *
Well Pushkin
Here is Pushkin
and here is Pushkin
and here
Pushkin
and Pushkin
Pushkin
and Lenin
Pushkin
and Stalin
Pushkin
and Kholin
So who is
your favorite poet
Pushkin
and Winnie the Pooh
* * *
— Where is it all after all?
— In Moscow
— And Moscow?
— On the Moon
— And the Moon?
— And the Moon
Does not exist.
Waves
This way
With the stern up
The waves you here rolling
At daytime from the breakwater
And at night— whoever knows where from
Tidal Verses
The Black Sea
It’s all you hear
And then you hear again
The Black Sea
The Black Sea
Black is
Black
The sea
sea
and sea.
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Moscow is the capital city
Moscow Moscow
perhaps it’s enough of Moscow
yet this said
and how much meaning is in it
Verses
The growth
Of comprehensive further expeditious unfolding of measures
For
Every comprehensive further expeditious unfolding of measures
For
Expeditious further comprehensive unfolding of measures
For
Further expeditious comprehensive unfolding of measures