Friday 22 April 2011

Writing in Russian - Poem to a chewing gum wrapper



In a bistro, I  restlessly began chain writing poems on pepper packets.  Upon  reading them  to some Russian boys the next day, they handed me some 'good' chewing gum(Wrigleys cyclone) for their further amusement. This is what I wrote on the packet:

Я выпотрошила твое еластичное сердце
У тебя будет просто угрюмая некрасивая кожа.
Жила была жевачка моя
Сияла как капитализм
Потом лишенный как феодолизм

To my chewing gum wrapper
I  tore out your elastic heart
Now you have only morose  skin, not quite red.
Once upon a time you lived dear chewing gum;
Now that Capitalist shine
Is dulled to lack, Feudalism.

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