«The telephone rang. / “Hello! Who’s there?” / “The Polar Bear.” / “What do you want?” / “I’m calling for the Elephant.” / “What does he want?” / “He wants a little Peanut brittle.” / “Peanut brittle!.. / And for whom?” “It’s for his little Elephan...»
«From the cycle LENIN I Lenin has the spirit of an Old Believer, / Intones his decrees like a priest, / And looks to the Pomorian Responses1 / For the source of all our grief. Now the land belongs to the peasants, / The Church is no longer a state serf. / Now a bright new word chimes for...»
«And while above Tsarskoye Selo1 / Akhmatova’s song and tears were pouring, / I, unwinding the skein of the sorceress, / Plodded through the desert like a sleepy corpse2, / There where impossibility lay dying: / An exhausted mummer Determined to break through. / And meanwhile in dark ca...»
«Bo-be-o-bee1 sang the mouth / Ve-e-o-mee sang the orbs / Pee-e-e-o sang the brows / Lee-e-e-ey sang the look / Gzee-gzee-gze-o sang the chain / Thus on a canvas of would-be connections / In another dimension there lived the Face. ____ / 1. Khlebnikov wrote in his notebook: “B is bri...»