Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

Maria Stepanova “You’d like to please the place Plus the array of puffy brides? You’re quite sure that this bride Isn’t a frog who eats black flies,

That her unnaturally dark-blue, Incredibly swollen blister

Is merely a cupola for sounds and lines, Through which the azure breathes?”

Pop! Despair: the balloon bursts— And the grass is all splattered with rubber, Where a widow shared the comradely Little bribe with the Young Pioneer.

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