Integrity And Tolerance Poem by Dmitry Garanin

I was taught integrity in my childhood,
and now I have finally got the point,
and I'm firing my stupid or amoral friends.

Soon I'll be left with those only
who don't care about me at all
and who themselves will fire me,
if they were taught integrity in their childhood.

There is something wrong here!
There are no people in the world like me,
just as there are none like everybody else!
Everyone is too particular.
Everyone will end up alone!

Let us now, instead, study tolerance,
but all of us together -
those whom I sent to hell
and those who are going to drop me.
Sure, I'll study together with them all -
honestly, without cheating.

We'll live harmoniously again
without demanding too much
and tearing tufts of wool from each other
as from a black sheep.

New York,13 March 2016