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Brown town
Like a needle
Brown town
Like a need
Here people sit around
Clay figure
Here people are sitting inside
Clay figure
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Night city seeks protection in the sun
City (not) says:
(Silence)
It's raining
/ /
(Devastation)
White men and black guns
Bullets are ringing:
Skr dzg jz
People die:
Quiet
Quiet
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diaphragms of misfortune
compliments of the device
torn tongue bites the tongue
the word touches a deaf ear
a man stands by the old cemetery
and does not know what to say
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ruins speak the language of stones
we are all giant boulders
beside the eternal river of silence
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the temple stands opposite the garden
a hundred-hundred-meter garden opposite the temple
and above the heads of the domes
and above the heads there
is a free sky
Author about Himself: I am Mykyta Ryzhykh from Ukraine (Nova Kakhovka Citу). Winner of the international competition «Art Against Drugs», bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik.
Published in the journals "Dzvin", "Ring A", "Polutona", "Rechport", "Topos", "Articulation", "Formaslov", "Colon", "Literature Factory", "Literary Chernihiv", on the portals "Literary Center” and “Soloneba”, in the “Ukrainian literary newspaper”.
