INCORRECTABLE CONSERVATIVE
He was wise and old
and he did not like innovation.
A. France "Baltasar".
Maybe because of the bad mockery of fate
I approach innovation with fear.
People have been attracted to Lecoq's cancan for a long time,
and I'm pinned to the wall by Bach's organ.
Bright and colorful show.
I can't compare it to a black and white movie,
even a hundred threepenny operas
they won't be able to strangle jealous Othello.
Yes, I am an incorrigible conservative,
but, thinking properly, without whims,
Behind the total darkness of the "Black Square"
I see the light with a Mona Lisa smile.
Perhaps in childhood the program failed,
maybe I didn't understand something in life,
but, if there are works by Mandelstam,
How can you call my poems works?
ALEXEY KALAKUTIN
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
07/26/2018
Translated by: Marlene Pasini, Mexico
July, 2022
Alexey Kalakutin (October 30, 1973) lives in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He is a Russian writer, a philologist. He is the author of six novels in verse, and and six long and extensive poetic pieces. His poetry has been translated into several languages and have been published in international magazines. International Ambassador for Peace, Honorary Doctorate, participant in several international poetic anthologies, awarded with certificates of recognition.
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