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My verse
has brought me
no roubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made
mahogany chairs for my house.

Then there's amortization,
the deadliest of all;
amortization
of the heart and soul.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

Soon, sampled by everyone,
Stale and pallid,
I'll come out
And mumble toothlessly
That today I'm
Remarkably candid.

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

Maria!
How can I fit a tender word into bulging ears?

Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals.

But I,
from poetry's skies,
plunge into communism,
because
without it
I feel no love.

But I
have tamed
myself
I have stomped
on the throat
of my own song

Read iron books!
"To signs" (1913)

Girl: The kid buys a new tie and you curse him like he was Ramsay MacDonald.

Have you seen
a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days
too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart
our battle-drum.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes - and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

The attitude of the American to the dollar contains poetry.

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan.

Men, crumpled like bed-sheets in hospitals,
And women, battered like overused proverbs.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

It must be a little love, - a baby, sort of,
It shies away when the cars honk and hiss,
But adores the bells on the horse-tram.