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И после плохого урожая нужно сеять" - эти слова Сенеки для меня являются точкой опоры в трудные моменты внешних катаклизмов.

"Even after a bad harvest, you must sow," these words of Seneca's are something I rely on, during the difficult times of external catastrophes.
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Trigger warning: you see the first two verses--this is the subject matter--this is not an optimistic poem
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273: далеко
С неяркой поэтессой Алей Ха.
Мы как-то в баре вечером сидели.
И я сказал:
- Послушай, в самом деле,
Ведь наша жизнь не так уж и плоха.
Бывали и похуже времена.
А Аля Ха. ответила
- Война.

#273: Far away
[this was written in the autumn of 2022]

With a not-showy female poet Alja H.
We sat in a bar one evening.
And I said:
"Well, listen, really,
Our life isn't so bad, after all.

There have been worse times."
And Alja H. replied:
"The war."( Read more... )

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