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Each thick finger, a fattened worm, gesticulates,
And his words strike you like they were many-pound weights.
His full cockroach moustache hints a laughter benigning,
And the shafts of ...
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Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), Russian poet. "We Exist in a Country Grown Unreal and Strange," trans by Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks.
This sat...
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