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“The sticky sky smells blue-gray …” by
Velimir Khlebnikov
🇷🇺
(
9 Nov 1885
–
28 Jun 1922
)
Translated from the Russian by & Paul Schmidt
The sticky sky smells blue-gray, it’s the odor of udder.
Show me some loving, be good to me!
I am bleeding. You are my fatality.
I am nailed up to die on an old empty tree.