Still fiddling with this, Mayakovsky's last poem, after so many
years. "Milkway" and "cloved" are new to match the Russian abbreviation and
pepper pun. Like poems, translations are never finished, only
abandoned.
It's after one. You've likely gone to sleep.
The Milkway streams silver, an Oka through the night.
I don't hurry, I don't need to wake you
Or bother you with lightning telegrams.
Like they say, the incident is cloved.
Love's little boat has crashed on daily life.
We're even, you and I. No need to account
For mutual sorrows, mutual pains and wrongs.
Look: How quiet the world is.
Night cloaks the sky with the tribute of the stars.
At times like these, you can rise, stand, and speak
To history, eternity, and all creation.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
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