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Poets wrote their lines,Cafe players strainedViolins’ strings,Proud standards plowedThe battlefields. Underground armies conspiredAnd fought their petty warsSwiftly…
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After this
After this -Nothing.No wanderingsThrough barren lands,No prayers hummedIn deserted tents. After this -All shall be nothingness,But a…
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Brodsky in Uppsala
…And as he reads on his poemsI follow close upon his words. For he is a poet…
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Is this a man?
Man is just Tame ape. Not long pastCage stage.
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Menu in high places
NowadaysA PRESIDENT FOR LIFEMay eat hisPRIME MINISTERFor dinner.
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Not enough
It’s not enough to stay alive,One has to see this world crumble.Yes, one has to get…
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First I dedicated it to Wladek Duczko and then took it off because we went broyges. Now that he is dead I’m putting him back here.
First comes the pope; he is a Pole.Then some old men from all over into the…
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A meeting with
“We could be sitting right here in this roomAnd in the yard they’d be murdering our…
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After meeting with
It always starts somewhere:Sometimes as a word,Sometimes as a gesture.It starts and falls upon the wavesAnd…
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Something about nothing
It’s when killings become murderThat they find a suitable victim:A stooped silhouette, faceless shadow;From their midst…