Dmitry Garanin

Some people are telling me
They are greater poets than I
More poetic natures
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I am catastrophically lacking sense of humor.
My sensitivity threshold is too high,
And I'm laughing only from the most funny jokes.
All others don't get me, unfortunately.
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As a physicist, I cannot understand writers.
What forces are acting between us?
I am attracted to them.
They are repelled from me.
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Where the death is swinging its scythe
Quick is the poet's pen
Facing
The unavoidable end
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I remember in the 80’s in Moscow
I was standing in my kitchen
With a book of Marxism-Leninism in my hands
Just slammed shut in indignation –
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Katia Kapovich is a first-tier poet
With a Greek nose, sharp mind
And a thin figure of a runner
A veritable cipher 1
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Cicero spoke to the sea.
I am waiting for Facebook's reply.
Who of us two is smarter?
I feel sad, still waiting for a reply..
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There is nothing sacred for me.
Because of this in my presence
You never have to be anxious
About your freedom of speech.
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If Brodsky could have written your poem,
Clearly you are mimicking him.
And if he couldn't have written your poem,
Your poem is no good,
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I don't understand the readers
Reading poems
As poems written by a person
Who is writing poems
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I am working day and night during one year
Making numerical calculations.
I hope to write a big paper,
Increase my publication list,
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When I've hit you hard with a tennis ball
On a side of your head,
I was really sorry.
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The US financial system
Is on the verge of collapse
This can happen any time
Within the next six months
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Помню в 80 годы в Москве
Стоял я на кухне
С книжкой марксизма-ленинизма в руках
Только что захлопнутой в негодовании -
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There are lots of people around
Who consider themselves
Finer than I.
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Living close to Columbus Avenue
South of Columbia University
Not far from the corner of Central Park
Where the statue of the slave trader is standing
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There was a time, they didn't read me
And then they read me little-by-little
But on the quiet
And didn't print
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Shares are rallying on the glimmer of hope
Businesses are counting future profits
From the treaty achieved after a new conflagration
Culminating in talks talks talks
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Nobody is reading anybody
Because everybody can write it better
On virtually any subject
Maybe not even deserving attention
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