Don’t leave the room, don’t blunder, do not go on. If you’re smoking Shipka, what good is the Sun? Outside, all is meaningless, especially – the cry of joy. To the lavatory and back straightaway, old boy. O, don’t leave the room, don’t call for a cab, my friend. Because Space is a corridor that will end with a meter. And, if your dear, delight expressing, walks inside, kick her out without undressing. Don’t leave the room; pretend that you have a cold. Four walls and a chair entice like nothing else in the world. Why leave the place that you’ll surely return to late in the night, as you were, only more – mutilated? O, don’t leave the room. Enchanted, dance bossa nova in shoes worn on bare feet, in a coat draped over your naked body. The hall reeks of ski wax and cabbage. You’ve written a lot; more would be extra baggage. Don’t leave the room. Let only the room imagine a little what you might look like. And besides, incognito ergo sum, as form itself learned from substance once. Don’t leave the room! Outside, you will not find France. Don’t be a fool! Be what others weren’t. Remain. Don’t leave the room! Let the furniture have free reign, blend in with wallpaper. Bolt the door, barricade in place with a dresser from chronos, cosmos, eros, virus, race. 1970
As for the stars, they always are. That is, if one, then behind another. Only so you can look here from there: in the evening, after eight, blinking. The sky looks better without them. Although The exploration of outer space is better if with them. But it is not coming off from a place, on a bare veranda, in an armchair. As he said, half the face in the shade hiding, a pilot of one shell, life, apparently, the life there is nowhere, and neither on one of them, you will not hold your gaze. (1976) Что касается звезд, то они всегда. То есть, если одна, то за ней другая. Только так оттуда и можно смотреть сюда: вечером, после восьми, мигая. Небо выглядит лучше без них. Хотя освоение космоса лучше, если с ними. Но именно не сходя с места, на голой веранде, в кресле. Как сказал, половину лица в тени пряча, пилот одного снаряда, жизни, видимо, нету нигде, и ни на одной из них не задержишь взгляда.