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“Once again, once again …” by Velimir Khlebnikov 🇷🇺 (9 Nov 188528 Jun 1922)
Translated from the Russian by Dmitrii Obolensky
Once again, once again
I’m a star for
you.
Woe to the sailor who has taken
The wrong angle of the ship
On a star:
He will be shattered on the rocks,
On the underwater sandbanks.
Woe to you also who have taken
The heart’s wrong angle on me.
You will be shattered on the rocks,
And rocks will laugh
At you
As you laught
At me.