Negritska Petrova
At Petrova's
in Hope
there is no clothing.
To buy
(the days have come!),
there is no money.
Her
in the prime of youth
spread in the tear slime?
Not a decadent,
no!
Waiting,
so that prices are lowered.
Stonet
Street
from the roar.
In the admiration of the hut.
- Come out soon, Petrova, -
in the shop
prices are reduced.
You can
to be worn in dresses
you want with a flower,
with the fly.
Decreased
with a yard of chintz
smooth
penny with an octopus.
Rejoice!
Not life -
raspberries.
You can
shine like a varnish.
On the box
shoe polish
prices
lower by a nickle.
Finally!
Gremi, the roulade!
To yearning,
spit on bitterness! -
In the shop
prices of marmalade
halved on the pound.
It's like a witch
in the lamps of the scene,
broom
hiding the body,
woman
sadly
looks at prices.
How should it be?
and what should she do?
And she took it,
having thought long,
a cotton cloth
(per sample),
two boxes of shoe polish,
marmalade -
box.
Baba sat down.
The weight of the case.
Baba thinks,
herbs are quieter,
like her
hide from shame
body…
Finally
the woman went out
from scrap
with fifty points
on one nostril of a handkerchief.
Working,
Do not be lazy,
shines birthday girl, -
to the knee
is sitting
and gutalinitsya.
Gutalin did not perish.
Bright light revived.
On foot
boots
own skin.
Hour after hour rolls,
woman
colors the dress
in Rosanna
in different,
with shingles.
The woman is walking
in the rain
and in the heat,
sparkling
mountain goliznoy.
But
this Nadi
nose
and lips
in the marmalade.
Goes a gut-witch
the street
and a plowman.
All Cows
mooch,
and bulls
Shied away.
And screams
children gang: - The Negress
from the jazz band! -
And even
note
Chamberlain
sent
thorny thorns:
that we
blacks
taken prisoner
and
We are stirring up in the Comintern.
In verse
reader
waiting for morality.
Please:
so that women do not stumble,
such merchants,
as in the line of this,
from behind the counter
must sweep,
and reduce
prices
on subjects
huge need.
1927
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