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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