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I came to the cemetery in the hazy heat of autumn	A
where the crosses creak as they split	B
to my grandmother Maria Iosefovna	A
and bought flowers at the gate	C
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In the era of silent movies Grandmother's braids	D
were formed into a tight wreath	E
and neighbor ladies in the smoke filled kitchen	A
called her the Commissar	F
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My grandmother beat me very little	G
A shame that her hand grew tired of beating	H
for in the opinion of a bathhouse attendant	I
I deserved nothing but boiling water	J
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I teased her cat in utter bliss	K
to be sure no one called me a sissy	L
I swapped her eight volumes of history	L
for three volumes of Man and Woman	A
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A great soccer game was at hand	M
Yugoslavia versus the USSR	L
I filched her gold wedding ring	H
after hiding secretly in the chiffonier	L
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And that ring heavy and reddish	N
from Grandfather's finger who is no more	L
got into the clutches of a speculator	L
for a mere standing room ticket	O
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My grandmother Maria Iosefovna	A
by merely biting the edge of her lip	P
so chilled the soup on the table	G
it was covered with Siberian ice	Q
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In front of a Robert Taylor poster	L
back in ration card times	R
she slipped on the ice by the bakery	L
and lost consciousness	S
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And with two fingers raised	T
white faced like the Old Believer Morozova	U
she repeated only one thing	H
'Be thou accursed ' and I was	V
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Hiding behind the primus stove I thought	W
that Grannie for sure from spite	X
only pretended to be dying	H
She punished me and died	Y
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To the neighbor's record Rio Rita	Z
she fixed her stare straight up	A2
and all the relatives implored me	L
'Confess Confess Confess '	-
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They continued to curse without stopping	H
from right and left I was fed up	A2
But Grandmother's curse	B2
alone stuck in my heart	C2
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And the ring staring through the loamy soil	D2
torments avenges and glitters from out of the bones	E2
Remove your curse from me Grannie	A
don't be sorry for me but for my children	A
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The guilty gentle flowers I	F2
place on the grave in silence	G2
It never enters my mind	H2
that their stems are suspiciously short	I2
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By the small gray gravestone	A
knowing all that goes on with people	G
Mother whispers so Grandmother won't hear	L
They steal flowers for resale here Break the stems	J2
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All of us are caught up in resale	K2
Perhaps I had brought as my gesture	L
flowers whose stems had once been broken	A
but which had been cut clean at the break	L2
It makes one shudder in the subway or on a trolleybus	J2
to see a couple cheek to cheek	M2
with all the stems in the young girl's happy hand	M
covered with cemetery clay	N2
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All broken stems get cut off	U
and in the shadow of departed shadows	J2
tragic is the sale of suffering	H
but the resale is yet more tragic	O2
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If there is a tiny mercenary dropp in me	L
then I don't belong to my family	L
Put a curse on me once more Grandmother	L
and never take that curse away	N2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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