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ЗАПИСНАЯ КНИЖКА/ An Address Book

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A poet I just discovered the other day...
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ЗАПИСНАЯ КНИЖКА


Всего полжизни за спиной,
А сколько пустоты и хлама!..
В потёртой книжке записной -
Умерший, съехавшая дама.

Мужская дружба на века,
Без видимой на то причины,
И семизначная тоска,
И семизначные личины.

Толпятся цифры, но уже
Ни радости, ни интереса.
Что говорят моей душе -
Марина... Михаил... Агнесса?..

Иль вот, к примеру, телефон
Записанный на всякий случай, -
Не верится, что прежде он
Затменьем был и страстью жгучей,

Что в трубку я шептал: 'Люблю...'
Когда вокруг спала столица...
Такой инфляции рублю
Не снилось да и не приснится.

Толпятся номера друзей
Забывших и забытых нами, -
Какой-то числовой музей,
Перемежённый именами.

Евгений Блажеевский

An Address Book

Only half my life is behind me,
But how much emptiness and junk there is!...
In a worn address book--
Someone who had died, a lady who moved away.

Men's friendship forever and ever,
Without a noticeable cause for it,
And a seven-digit melancholy,
And seven-digit masks on faces.

The numbers crowd together, but
They no longer create any happiness or even interest.
What do these say to my heart--
Marina...Mikhail...Agnessa?

Or, here, for example, is a phone number
Which I wrote down just in case--
It's difficult to believe that in the bygone days
It was an eclipse and a burning passion,

That I whispered into the phone receiver, "I love you..."
When the capital city slept around me...
The ruble has never dreamed
And will never be able to dream about such a level of inflation.

The phone numbers of friends
Whom we forgot and who forgot us crowd together--
Some sort of a numbers museum,
Interspersed with names.


Evgeny Blazheevsky

Comments

gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
Apr. 17th, 2015 10:00 am (UTC)
Truth.
med_cat: (Hourglass)
Apr. 17th, 2015 04:09 pm (UTC)
Yeah... *sigh*