My White Wife Wants To Have A Black Baby

Akhmatova

; И в мире нет людей бесслезней,
                                     Надменнее и проще нас.
                                                                                      1922
In treasured amulet does not wear on his chest,
about her sobbing did not compose poems,
Our bitter dream it reopen,
not seem to promise paradise.
not do her in his heart
subject of buying and selling,
Khvorov, bedstvuya, nemotstvuya on it,
about her not even remember.
Yes for us it's dirt on the galoshes,
Yes, for us it's crunch on the teeth. And
We melem and mesim, and crumble
That in no way mixed dust.
But we lie down in it and become it,
why and call so freely - his way.
1961
Leningrad