JOSEPH BRODSKY
All those tee ny blue ca pillaries .. .
Like under Cecili a's ski rt ...
Petroooooov ich.
By the year
:2000,
they rec ko n , we ca n corn er th e soda market.
Yeah, but th at 's pretty f:l r down the pike.
First, you have
to
li ve th at lo ng.
I've got only o ne yea r befo re pe nsio n .
And
besides, electi o ns.
While the loa ns - th ey' re he re now .
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[They all starc at Gllstall . Gl/Stat
l
stcps back , pressillg to hill/self a swollell briif–
case. ]
Why do you look at m e like this?
How?
Like this.
How like this?
[TI!e rillg gradllall y closes arolllld C llstat
l
.!
You know.
Don't be afraid .
Yeah, no one's go in g to hurt yo u .
It ain't painful.
Cecilia, bl ock th e b ea r.
But he is inanimate.
We should chec k that o ut.
Oy, three aga inst o n e .
Majority's the word .
Oy.
Don't be sca red I sa id .
Oy, oy, oy.
[Short sqllabble. Petrollich
CIII C~I?('S
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l
ith Gllstall's
bri~fras('.
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