Contents Introduction

Night

Morning

Port

Street Scene

Could You?

Me

Exhausted Portrait of Spring

In Tiredness

Love

We

Cries and Whispers

Up Yours!

They Just Don’t Get It

In a Car

Vladimir Mayakovsky

War Is Declared

Mother and the Evening the Germans Killed

Cloud in Trousers

I and Napoleon

You!

Hey!

And That’s How I Became a Dog

To Lily, Instead of a Letter

I’m Bored

Going Cheap

A Moonlit Night

To His Own Self, with Affection, the Author

Dedicates These Lines

To Russia

My Brother Writers

The Revolution

How Red Is Your Riding Hood?

Eat Your Pineapple ix

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