From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   A light in ruins shimmers like a star   
   Someone lives there, holding the flames with teeth.   
   The war is over, we walk along a path,   
   And world is comely, I must go so far!   
   And for two miles around me you can smell   
   The living piece of heavy cleaning soap   
   And force of cleanliness above us floats   
   The flannel's clean and hair is clean as well!   
   And I am dressed in a smock-frock, so neat,   
   And next to my clean mother I do step   
   And on my way I nearly fall asleep,   
   The streetcar's ringing silvering my sleep.   
   And bathhouse knot with clothes, in my arms   
   Is silvering. And silver is the cosmos.   
   And there's no war, and we walk from the bathhouse,   
   I'm eight years old, and I must go so far!   
   And we won't take the streetcar, it appears,   
   For anything - in baths we've been de-liced!   
   And world is comely, and all are alive,   
   And they will now live for hundred years!   
   And world is comely, I must go so far,   
   I fear not poverty - I am defended -   
   And O my lord! How fearsome and splendid   
   A light in ruins shimmers like a star.   
      
   By Yunna Moritz   
   Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat   
   https://www.oocities.org/ilya_shambat2004   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)