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to Aleksandr Lebedev

Who pours oil into the fire of passions?

Mediocrity, narrow-mindedness, greed and foolishness,

Not to mention about those who likes the fashion

To spread the future with vainglorious jam.

What’s the use of this carnival trick,

And of the triumphal procession of boneless graduates

Which will make trips

Into the country of bright fuss in little gradually?

And most of their time trying to install

Electrical equipment for soup bubbles

And make up advertising mails

For humble humbugs.

That is how people make rejects

And sell them while others loudly relax.