vi ‘Vladimir Mayakovsky’ and Other Poems Our March 85 Spring 86 How to Treat Horses 86 Ode to the Revolution 88 Battle-Order to the Army of Art 89 The Poet Worker 91 Left March 92 Stunning Facts 94 Vladimir Ilich! 95 Vladimir Mayakovsky Rented a Dacha One Summer;

You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

À la Heine

Grief

A Story about How a Little Old Lady Spoke about

Vrangel without Understanding Anything

About the Filth

All Meetinged Out

Bastards!

The Bureaucratiad

I Love

Worker Correspondent

A Universal Answer

Baku

Moscow-Königsberg

Mad about the Movies

Be Prepared

Kiev

Two Berlins

Jubilee

Hooliganish Stuff

Brooklyn Bridge

To Sergei Yesenin

How’s It Going?

Conversation with the Taxman about Poetry

To Comrade Nette

A Letter from the Writer Vladimir Vladimirovich

Mayakovsky to the Writer Aleksei Maksimovich Gorky 202

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