kartina: ``Padenie doma Romanovykh'', ili
``dobryi pingvin'', ili
``kuski luny''

Povsyudu ryby.

Sennoyu, khnoyu i penoyu,
Ryzhim ogniom son po skalam.
Ryby chredoi postepennoyu
Medlenno meryayut shpaly.

Russkoyu tvar'yu starinnoyu
Chert pritvoryaetsya khilyi.
Vremya meshaetsya s tinoyu.
Ryby kivayut unylo.

A daleko, nad vulkanami
Slovno zatikhshie osy,
Ryby chredoyu bagryanoyu
Dal' ostorozhnuyu kosyat.

21 okt. 96

***

Ryby, ustritsy i zveri,
Skol'zkiy uzh, vonyuchiy shmel'
Osazhdayut nashi dveri,
Zalezayut k nam v postel'.

Postovoi, trevozhno shchuryas',
Arestovyvaet tvar'.
On ne znaet nashikh ulits
I emu eio ne zhal'.

Russkim dukhom pakhnet rezko
I gudit protyazhno um.
Dlya kogo-to eto merzko,
Dlya kogo-to prosto shum.

Ya lyublyu vas sil'no, zveri.
Vy, i vsya moya sem'ya
Pered dniom takoi poteri
Bud'te bditel'ny, druz'ya.

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Samovarov.

Ryby, rasteniya, kraby,
Son na poroge subboty
Khmurye pravyat araby
Mertvoe telo raboty.

Veterinar Samovarov
Rubit zhivotnym kopyta.
Plamya dalekikh pozharov,
Zapakh rasteniy ubitykh.

Ryby stuchat sapogami,
Litsa v koroste naryvov.
Vsepozhirayushchiy plamen'
Chto vy nadelali, ryby.

Golos donositsya strogo
Slovno iz skazki zabytoi
Ryby, gotovy k doroge?
Net, ne gotovy -- ubity.

V zolote lipkikh tovarov
Trupnoi poveyalo gar'yu
Veterinar Samovarov
Vstretilsya nynche s pechal'yu.

Iz temnoty peregara
Korchitsya strashno na dybe
Veterinar Samovarov
Chto vy nadelali, ryby.

I otvechayut negromko,
V smerti bezvinnoi surovy
Ryby, gotovy k doroge
Chtozh, i na ehto gotovy.

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Nebo beremenno nebom
Vremya beremenno vremenem
Lyazhesh', a vstanesh' beremenna
Volokom, volosom, bredom.

Znanie kazhetsya znaniem
No povernetsya bokom --
I obernetsya neznaniem
Omutom temnym, glubokim.

Chernoe bryukho kristalla
Vremya v okruzhnosti breda
V omute ryba krichala:
-- Nebo beremenno nebom.

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``I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.'' Liber AL, I, 58

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