a dreamer boy
sculpts bird's embryos from the dough
and throws up
he hides his pupils
in poppy boxes
so that the old people would not know
that he is black haired
under a three-meter sky
the boy flies
like a calligrapher's hand
"you are still flying"
says mom
"at least take out the trash"
the boy is looking for trash
in deserted places
of Tangier
on the pier
under the final downpour
in coffee shops
where they serve dirty coffee
and can't find it
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Author:
Sviatoslav Zhabotynskyi (
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Loved the write, but didn’t quite understand. Could you explain
Mom told him to throw out the trash, literally meaning the "trash." Being a dreamer, he spent his life in various places - looking for garbage, not only literal, but also abstract garbage - that which should be thrown away. In the some places, he experiences the ecstasy of being and realizes that he has not found anything that can be thrown away, something that corresponds to his own abstract concept of garbage. He lived a part of life and did not find anything superfluous in his life - without regret, having accepted life, he does not see garbage anywhere. I hope google translator did it, because I'm not very good at English.
I got blackout, so another part write you leter.
1. a dreamer boy, as the creator molds bird embryos from dough - is this process successful? the question is deliberately left open.
2. in Ukraine, if you are a black-haired boy with dark eyes, old people will definitely pick on you, so the boy tries to hide it by hiding his pupils among something dark.
3. How good is he at dreaming? He flies like a calligrapher's hand.
4. The rest is a search for garbage and unnecessary things in life, an attempt that fails.
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