«To Ilya Ehrenburg Horses can swim but they don't venture far — / That is a fact, and here is the story: In times of peace, just after the war, / There was a ship by the name of Gloria. She was out at sea one fateful day, / Across the ocean ploughing her way. On the surging waves she toss...»
«There were many old women and only a few old men... / Perhaps it was life, just life, or perhaps something else again / But it bent the old women, and the old men it broke: / Some died of heart-attacks, others of strokes. / The old women went through their closets and chests, / And laid o...»
«Physicists are held in reverence, / Lyricists — let's be truthful — / in the shade. / This is not an ordinary preference, / It's a law, and is as such obeyed. All it means is that poetic reverie / Sidetracks us from pathwa...»
«My breast was bound with a cold band, / And still my steps were light. / The glove intended for my left hand, / I put on my right. At the thought of the stairs, I grew faint-hearted, / But I knew, there were only three! / An autumnal whisper in the maples started / Begging: "Die with me...»