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Rebuke to a cloud in trousers
Mayakovsky—
You volunteered to write a Bolshevik “ABC”
For Red Army soldiers
At the front
Two million literate peasants
—for the Revolution
Here is how they learned their “Ts”:
“Flowers (tsvety) smell sweet in the evening
Tsar Nicholas loved them very much.”
Mayakovsky—
You wanted to make the Tsar
Fey
But we want to follow men
Who smell flowers in the evening
Did Lenin smell flowers?
He could only smell blood
It’s not “bourgeois”
To walk on the corpse
Of Russia