Andrei Sen-Senkov was born in 1968 in Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. He studied medicine in the Russian city Yaroslavl’ and graduated at the same time when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Tajikistan became an independent state involved into civil war. As a refugee he settled in a small city Borisoglebsk in the Central Russia and worked as a pediatrician and acupuncturist. Since 2002 he lives in Moscow still working in the medical field.
the embryo is growing
obediently repeating all the stages of evolution
now it already has one ear for the word to go in
and another ear for it to fly out
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every night I dream
that I'm building a big grey house
out of a single dust mote
it's a special mote
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first you forget the names of places
then nouns
then verbs
out of I love you
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an ancient roman soldier
getting his vision tested
had to be able to see
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the sailor waves the signal flags
surrounding himself with the multicoloured letters of the word love
he doesn't know he's hiv-positive
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