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Joseph Brodsky - Elegy
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About a year has passed. I`ve returned to the place of the battle,
to its birds that have learned their unfolding of wings 
						 from a subtle
lift of a surprised eyebrow, or perhaps from a razor blade
- wings, now the shade of early twilight, now of state 
						 bad blood.

Now the place is abuzz with trading
		 	in your ankles`s remnants, bronzes
of sunburnt breastplates, dying laughter, bruises,
rumors of fresh reserves, memories of high treason,
laundered banners with imprints of the many
	     				who since have risen.

All`s overgrown with people. A ruin`s a rather stubborn
architectural style. And the hearts`s distinction
			 	from a pitch-black cavern
isn`t that great; not great enough to fear
that we may collide again like blind eggs somewhere.

At sunrise, when nobody stares at one`s face, I often,
set out on foot to a monument cast in molten
lengthy bad dreams. And it says on the plinth "commander
in chief." But it reads "in grief," or "in brief,"
				 	or "in going under."
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