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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

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