Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich

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Do not leave the room

Do not leave the room, do not make a mistake.

Why to you the Sun if you smoke to Shipk?

Behind a door everything is senseless, especially – exclamation of happiness.

Only to the bathroom – and at once return.

Oh, do not leave the room, do not cause the motor.

Because the space is made of a corridor

also comes to an end in the counter. And if enters live,

opening wide a mouth, expel without undressing.

Do not leave the room; consider that you caught a draft.

What it is more interesting on light of a wall and a chair?

Why to leave it where you will return in the evening

same what you were, especially – mutilated?

Oh, do not leave the room. Dance, having caught, a bossa nova

in a coat on a naked body, in shoes barefoot.

In the hall smells of cabbage and ointment ski.

You wrote many letters; one more will be superfluous.

Do not leave the room. Oh, let only the room

guesses as you look. And in general incognito

ergo bags as substance noticed to a form in a fit of temper.

Do not leave the room! On the street, tea, not France.

Be not a fool! Be what others were not.

Do not leave the room! So give a vent to furniture,

merge the person with wall-paper. Be locked and barricade

cabinet from chronos, space, Eros, race, a virus...