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Poems from a Stool · 2026

Making Up for Lost Time

Make up for what was missed. Boo off what's puffed up. Trim off what's been grafted on. By youth all pimpled. With strength saturated. By surroundings shriveled. By reason abducted. A body home-grown. By will scorched. By time drilled. By someone damaged. By something caressed again. How do I lay out what was missed Without sinking into the cheap, So that what's been let go Would stay in the past?
Draft translation, the author is still revising it · written in Russian