Mass is unclear
Between the writer
and the reader
are intermediaries,
and taste
from the intermediary
most mediocre.
Such
mediocre
from an intermediary
a thousand
and in critics
and in the editor.
Wherever
your thought
nor jumped,
this
all
Looks sleepily:
- I
human
another temper.
I remember, as now,
in verse
in Nadson
...
Working
does not love
lines of short ones.
And
intermediaries
cover Aseev
.
And punctuation marks?
Dot -
as a birthmark.
You
verse decorate,
points are scattered.
Comrade Mayakovsky,
wrote iamb,
one-half
per line
I would add to you. -
Will tell
several
medieval legends,
explanation
for four hours,
and to everything
exhorts
the dull intellectual:
- You
do not understand
workers and peasants. -
Sinks
author
from the consciousness of guilt.
And this very
critic influential
peasant
saw
only before the war,
at the time of buying
in the country
legs of veal.
And the workers
and even less -
accidentally
two
during a flood.
We looked
from the bridge
to places and pictures,
on the spill,
on the floating ice floes.
Critic
bypassed tenderly
two representatives
out of ten million.
Nothing special -
arms and breasts ...
People are like people!
And in the evening
over tea
sat and bragged: - I'm
I know
the working class is something.
I
soul
read
for their silence -
nor decline,
nor despair.
Who can
read
in this class?
Only Gogol,
only a classic.
And the peasantry?
Also.
Not otherwise.
As now, I remember -
in the spring, at the dacha ... -
Such conversations
writers
we have
often
replace
knowledge of the masses.
And go
pre-revolutionary model
creation of the word,
brushes
and a tool.
And in mass
floats
intellectual gift -
dreams,
roses
and the sound of guitars.
I beg
writers,
with a frightened pale,
quit
flatter
poetry for the poor.
Understands
leading class
and art
not worse than you.
Culture
high
in the masses move!
Such,
as well as the rest.
Needed
and understandable
good book -
and you,
And me,
and peasants,
and workers.
1927
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