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About Our Meeting by Vlad Visotski

 

About our meeting, what can I say! —believe.

I waited for it, as one waits for natural disasters.

But you and I immediately began to live,

Without fear of disastrous consequences.

 

I immediately narrowed the circle of your acquaintances,

Dressed and shod you and pulled you out of the mud,

But stilla long tail dragged behind you —

A long tail of your short connections.

 

Then, I remember, I beat your friends:

I felt somehow unpleasant with them, don’t why.

Although, perhaps, among of all of them,

Surely, there were great handsome  guys.

 

What you asked for — I did in a moment:

I tried to make every hour into  a wedding night.

Because of you, I jumped under a train, shipment,

But, thank our God, not entirely successfully tight.

 

And if you had been waiting for me that year,

When I was sent to the prison for the rest

I would have stolen the entire sky for you

And two gold stars from Brejnev chest.

 

And I swear now, I will be the last bastard:

Don’t lie, don’t drink — and I will forgive your betrayal.

And I will give you the Bolshoi Theater

And the Lugniki Sports Greate Arena.

 

But now I am not ready for the meeting:

I am afraid of you, I am afraid of nights intimate —

Like the inhabitants of Japanese cities

Are afraid of a repeat of Hiroshima.