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You want to be like a baby toy… ~ Вы хотите быть игрушечной
written by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Dmitri Smirnov
From Comic Poems. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov.



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[To Anna Achmatova[1]]


You want to be like a baby toy
But the broken clockwork is what you’ve got,
Without verses no one will draw
Closer to you than within gunshot.


1911

Notes

  1. ↑ The humorous inscription into the album of Anna Akhmatova.

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