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“Not like other people, not every week …” by Boris Pasternak 🇷🇺 (10 Feb 189030 May 1960)
Translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale
Not like other people, not every week,
Not all the time, in a century but twice,
I prayed to you: please intelligibly
Reiterate the words of creation.
Unbearable to you are the admixtures
Of intimacies and people’s slavishness.
How could you possibly make me happy?
With what would you consume the earth’s salt?