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by: Ilya Shambat - Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:03 UTC

It's dawn, sirens are wailing,
Seven a.m.
You that appear like Verlen,
Wake up old man!

Eyes childish, angling,
Green fire makes ash;
Upon the neck is hanging
A colored sash.

He curses, mutters, mumbles
Words lost within;
He wants to make confession
But first to sin.

A disappointed worker
A bitter one
The eye, beat up in melee,
Shines like the sun.

Thus having followed Sabbath,
He drags his feet:
Happy privation stares
From every street.

At home, flying with curse words
And white with rage,
A harsh wife meets and screams at
The drunken sage.

By Osip Mandelshtam
Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat

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by: Zod - Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:52 UTC

On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 8:03:22 PM UTC-4, Ilya Shambat wrote:
>
> It's dawn, sirens are wailing,
> Seven a.m.
> You that appear like Verlen,
> Wake up old man!
>
> Eyes childish, angling,
> Green fire makes ash;
> Upon the neck is hanging
> A colored sash.
>
> He curses, mutters, mumbles
> Words lost within;
> He wants to make confession
> But first to sin.
>
> A disappointed worker
> A bitter one
> The eye, beat up in melee,
> Shines like the sun.
>
> Thus having followed Sabbath,
> He drags his feet:
> Happy privation stares
> From every street.
>
> At home, flying with curse words
> And white with rage,
> A harsh wife meets and screams at
> The drunken sage.
>
> By Osip Mandelshtam
> Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
> https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat

Another winner from Osip Mandelshtam

Where is John Carson now that we need him? -- RLG

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