I need but little! A crust of bread
and just a drop of mild
sky overhead,
these clouds above the hill!
Мне мало надо!
Краюшку хлеба
И каплю молока.
Да это небо,
Да эти облака!
«1 Poet — from afar starts a speech. / A poet - far away starts the speech. With planets, with marks, with roundabout / Tales' hollows... between yes and nay / He even having swung from the belltower / Took out the hook... For comets' way Is poets' way. The scattered chime of purpose —...»
«2 There are the extras, the unneeded / That do not fit within the norm. / (Not counting in your dictionaries / To them the landfill is their home). There are the hollow, the pushed-down, / There are the mute — like dung, / Nail — to your silken skirt hem! / Dirt from under the whe...»
«3 What should I do, blind and a stepson, / When all have fathers and have eyes, / When on anathema like embankments / Of passion! Where runny nose is the / Name of cry! What should I do, with rib and thought / Singing! — like wire! Siberia! Sunburn! / Upon your dreams — like on th...»
«Fair enough: you people have eaten me, / I — wrote you down. / They’ll lay you out on a dinner table, / me — on this desk. I’ve been happy with little. / There are dishes I’ve never tried. / But you, you people eat slowly, and often; / You eat and eat. Everything was decided ...»