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Poems

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And he’d smile at me

with his Gagarin smile,

because in point of fact

he wanted

to be an astronaut

more than anyone.

And I didn’t want to be a poet, either,

but I couldn’t bring myself to write

that I wanted to be Lyoshka’s wife.

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