one of them said / you girls are always hauling heavy stuff
it’s possible all women make up a secret organization working under the guise of an oppressed class
the women coerced into prostitution they’re the suicide bombers of our terrorist organization sacrificing themselves for the life of all women and the murder of all men a nice romantic image is coming together here I think I’m one of these women one of the ones engaged in the struggle against all men for all women
but I know it’s not true AIDS exists but the struggle doesn’t
Usually it tells you a lot about your day-to-day activities, / When, at such a moment of mass enthusiasm, you find it difficult to move, / And you cannot “calmly continue to go about business as usual.”
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.