
Life is hard, death is distant. Let’s multiply this by two and make it simpler.
Life is hard, death is distant. Let’s multiply this by two and make it simpler.
you break off a piece of delicious biscotti / yeah. that would be a lot more realistic / after all you’re so interested in realism
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“Your second mouth is celestially gentle.” / I say nothing. I’m Angela Merkel.
I see students, fire / /people marching, fire / trembling, feeling, blind / invincible and kind, fire
He’s still on top: / spinning out his dialectic / pillorying the fascists / demanding that his books also be burned on the square
Poetry after Brodsky
What these poets have in common is a desire to address contemporary Russian realities, and to occupy, through the medium of poetry, a position that has been both the glory and the curse of Russian poetry for the past two hundred years. That is, to be something more than poets.