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I would like	A
to be born	B
in every country	C
have a passport	D
for them all	E
to throw	F
all foreign offices	G
into panic	H
be every fish	I
in every ocean	J
and every dog	K
in the streets of the world	L
I don't want to bow down	M
before any idols	N
or play at being	O
a Russian Orthodox church hippie	C
but I would like to plunge	P
deep into Lake Baikal	E
and surface snorting	O
somewhere	Q
why not in the Mississippi	C
In my damned beloved universe	R
I would like	A
to be a lonely weed	S
but not a delicate Narcissus	T
kissing his own mug	U
in the mirror	V
I would like to be	C
any of God's creatures	W
right down to the last mangy hyena	X
but never a tyrant	Y
or even the cat of a tyrant	Y
I would like to be	C
reincarnated as a man	Z
in any image	A2
a victim of prison tortures	W
a homeless child in the slums of Hong Kong	B2
a living skeleton in Bangladesh	C2
a holy beggar in Tibet	D2
a black in Cape Town	M
but never	V
in the image of Rambo	F
The only people whom I hate	E2
are the hypocrites	F2
pickled hyenas	G
in heavy syrup	G2
I would like to lie	E
under the knives of all the surgeons in the world	L
be hunchbacked blind	H2
suffer all kinds of diseases	G
wounds and scars	I2
be a victim of war	J2
or a sweeper of cigarette butts	K2
just so a filthy microbe of superiority	C
doesn't creep inside	L2
I would not like to be in the elite	M2
nor of course	N2
in the cowardly herd	O2
nor be a guard dog of that herd	O2
nor a shepherd	O2
sheltered by that herd	O2
And I would like happiness	T
but not at the expense of the unhappy	C
and I would like freedom	P2
but not at the expense of the unfree	J2
I would like to love	Q2
all the women in the world	L
and I would like to be a woman too	R2
just once	S2
Men have been diminished	T2
by Mother Nature	J2
Why couldn't we give motherhood	U2
to men	V2
If an innocent child	W2
stirred	O2
below his heart	X2
man would probably	C
not be so cruel	E
I would like to be man's daily bread	Y2
say	Z2
a cup of rice	A3
for a Vietnamese woman in mourning	O
cheap wine	B3
in a Neapolitan workers' trattoria	J2
or a tiny tube of cheese	C3
in orbit round the moon	D3
Let them eat me	C
let them drink me	C
only let my death	E3
be of some use	F3
I would like to belong to all times	G3
shock all history so much	H3
that it would be amazed	I3
what a smart aleck I was	J3
I would like to bring Nefertiti	I3
to Pushkin in a troika	X
I would like to increase	K3
the space of a moment	I3
a hundredfold	I3
so that in the same moment	I3
I could drink vodka with fishermen in Siberia	X
and sit together with Homer	J2
Dante	I3
Shakespeare	J2
and Tolstoy	I3
drinking anything	O
except of course	N2
Coca Cola	X
dance to the tom toms in the Congo	F
strike at Renault	F
chase a ball with Brazilian boys	L3
at Copacabana Beach	M3
I would like to know every language	A2
like the secret waters under the earth	N3
and do all kinds of work at once	S2
I would make sure	J2
that one Yevtushenko was merely a poet	I3
the second an underground fighter	J2
somewhere	J2
I couldn't say where	J2
for security reasons	O3
the third a student at Berkeley	C
the fourth a jolly Georgian drinker	J2
and the fifth	P3
maybe a teacher of Eskimo children in Alaska	X
the sixth	Q3
a young president	I3
somewhere say modestly speaking in Sierra Leone	R3
the seventh	S3
would still be shaking a rattle in his stroller	J2
and the tenth	T3
the hundredth	U3
the millionth	S3
For me it's not enough to be myself	V3
let me be everyone	J
Every creature	J2
usually has a double	E
but God was stingy	C
with the carbon paper	J2
and in his Paradise Publishing Corporation	J
made a unique copy of me	C
But I shall muddle up	G2
all God's cards	W3
I shall confound God	I3
I shall be in a thousand copies to the end of my days	X3
so that the earth buzzes with me	C
and computers go berserk	Y3
in the world census of me	C
I would like to fight on all your barricades	Z3
humanity	C
dying each night	I3
like an exhausted moon	D3
and resurrecting each morning	O
like a newborn sun	J
with an immortal soft spot fontanel	E
on my head	I3
And when I die	I3
a smart aleck Siberian Francois Villon	J
do not lay me in the earth	N3
of France	A4
or Italy	E
but in our Russian Siberian earth	N3
on a still green hill	E
where I first felt	I3
that I was	J3
everyone	J
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Translated by the author	J2

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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