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[Nov. 8th, 2007|10:54 pm] |
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i wrote this when i was 18, i think. it shows.
зима, ночь полнолунья, кончен бал
погасли свечи в лампе геморройной
луна взобралась на бесхозный пьедестал
и мягко в стену лбом стучит конвойный
и память из последних сил сжимает меч
борясь с беспамятством, тогда как я, устало,
снимаю плащ с покатых узких плеч
и ме-едленно ползу под одеяло
я брежу. мне мерещится: мой мозг
подобен раскаленному горнилу
в котором черти в преисподней плавят воск
чтобы залить им скорбную долину
где следовало б сделать эшафот
но плотники алтарь возвигли праздный
мелькает в тучах звездый кашалот
с разинутую пастью безобразной
я свет включаю (ибо не до сна)
по тумбочке рукою тонкой шаря
и вижу в зеркале: во лбу горит звезда
и освещает оба полушарья |
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[Nov. 4th, 2007|11:27 am] |
as i drink my morning coffee
reading the news
with the sun rising behind my back
and the shadow of the venetian blind
creeping across my desk
like the ladder
that jacob saw in his dream
and joseph in the pit dreamed about
i suddenly realise
that in africa it is already afternoon
and you've already read your news
and drank your coffee |
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[Jan. 26th, 2007|01:45 am] |
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хорошему предела нет
о чем мечтал ты сколько лет
осуществить совсем несложно
когда терпеть уж невозможно
возьми у друга пистолет |
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[Jul. 23rd, 2006|09:56 pm] |
there's a door in this wall but you lost the key.
you've walked a thousand miles to be here.
it's amusing how now and then to be
is to loiter aimlessly between far and near.
turn the page, burn the book, meaning: build an altar.
things that weep, things that slam, figures and equations
for the casual photographer with his old minolta
just a scene, just a frame, a sort of abbreviation
of life. time with motion detracted. pointless.
fleeting like the ghost of your dead older brother.
having said that, do you think he's just out of focus?
not that you could change that one way or another...
all the points considered, you may run or crawl
depending on the disposition of the guard in china
but given enough time, even the largest wall
will crumble. and it will be caught on camera. |
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[May. 14th, 2006|09:57 pm] |
ah, what the hell, for lack of anything else... i posted it on my myspace profile:
i'd rather be a follower than a leader
gay people would call me a breeder
i'm a drinker, but not a smoker
and i'm a better listenner than a stalker talker |
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[May. 3rd, 2006|05:22 pm] |
i saw freedom in a dream
it had many wheels and a steam-
powered engine
it was a train in the direction
of future, in which i hop another
train, that looks like a brother
to the one i'm on
and that one, in turn
carries me so far away that i
can't tell where we are, but a cry
of another train changes the landscape,
makes it familiar. i transfer
yet again.
amid motion i am
motionless. in a sea of sounds
i am silent. it was all predicted by nostradamus
who said "rock on, baby!" and pulled the lever
and so i know not when, if ever
time will come to turn
back
head home
and
make it in time for dinner. |
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[May. 1st, 2006|11:20 am] |
perhaps only jakeology and namastaei
know the reason why night always follows the day
unlike giants who stand on ice and spit lava
i'm but a pink war elephant that cried mama
all the things you loved rode away on a train
what is love but a comical chemical imbalance in the brain
i could do with more whisky and less drama
i'm a pink war elephant that cried mama
mental harpies smile at you, don't be alarmed
from this fire we shall emerge unharmed
some will call you hitler, some - dalai lama
some will call you a pink-war-elephant-that-cried-mama |
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[Apr. 24th, 2006|08:11 pm] |
it is six a.m. and i can't sleep
not because i don't want to, not at all
reading poets who've never lived
parts of nothing that make up a whole
trying new ways to look for new ways
i may run, i may hide, i may die
i can probably master the bass
i can even move to bed-stuy
but there's something i shan't forget:
that some people who never lived
sometimes do deserve more respect
than some others who actually did |
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