Konstantin Ananin Poems

Sometimes people who live in towns and cities don't know where salad comes from.

- You’re a gardener, Peter, I know.
You’ve got a garden, what do you grow?
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- Last night you told me about our firework.
- Yes, but I don’t know how it works.
- What’s the problem? Tell me.
- I’ve lost the instruction, you see.
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- Mary, it’s difficult for Annie-mouse
To live in winter in her house,
But there she puts grass and seeds.
- How does Annie-mouse do it?
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- It’s better to give than to get.
- It is the motto of Dad.
- You’ve got a nice father!
- Nice? He’s a boxer and rather
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- What’s this?
___________- Tabasco sauce for meat.
I know this thing. I don’t advise it.
- It smells so wonderful. Why not?
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Porcupines are small and big.
Tree porcupines are small and live in leaves.
They can climb but can’t dig.
Big porcupines can dig but can’t climb trees.
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- Do you know the fairy tale
How Reynard lost his tail?
- His tail? I know he can steal everything.
- Yes, people and animals don’t like his things.
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- Oh! I want to skate.
- Have you ever swum in winter here?
- Brrrr! What a question, Kate!
- You can sink. I want you to hear.
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- The sun wakes up in the East.
It goes to sleep in the West.
And we say it rises,
Or we say it sets.
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The cuckoos don’t sit on their eggs,
They lay them in other birds’ nests.
Once two young cuckoos met,
Greeted each other and had a chat:
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