Transitions №3

Author: Vsevolod Nekrasov

Translated by Ian Probstein

 
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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

 
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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

 
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— 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

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