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    From Ilya Shambat@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 16:02:24 2022
    I do not want to live my life, like all,
    Living like squirrels in a hamster wheel,
    Walking around in circles, being slaves,
    Afraid of storm and of the ocean waves.

    I want to live uplifted like an eagle;
    I want to live conceited like a Creole;
    Smashing, threatening barriers, sliding by
    Between the two "forbidden"'s intertwined.

    I want to live, a wise and brilliant man
    Of all his peers a century ahead
    And yet in other measures, to exist
    A fifty years behind my time at least.

    I want to live, as it behooves to live
    To him who knows to conjure and conceive
    New notes from ancient ones and from the past -
    I want to live the way life lives, at last!

    By Igor Severyanin
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
    https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat

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  • From Ilya Shambat@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 27 22:21:17 2022
    I do not want to live my life, like all,
    Living like squirrels in a hamster wheel,
    Walking around in circles, being slaves,
    Afraid of storm and of the ocean waves.

    I want to live uplifted like an eagle;
    I want to live conceited like a Creole;
    Smashing, threatening barriers, sliding by
    Between the two "forbidden"'s intertwined.

    I want to live, a wise and brilliant man
    Of all his peers a century ahead
    And yet in other measures, to exist
    A fifty years behind my time at least.

    I want to live, as it behooves to live
    To him who knows to conjure and conceive
    New notes from ancient ones and from the past -
    I want to live the way life lives, at last!

    By Igor Severyanin
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
    https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat

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