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Julia Wiener. Love me

Love me

Love me in the morning when

with a cigarette wheezing in my chest

I blindly brew my first cup of coffee

paying no attention to you
 

Love me during the day

when I’m busy with important things

much more important than your petty animal longing

and love me in the evening too

even if your love is considered of a lower kind

and on the scale of values is placed somewhere near sport
 

Love me when a black wave of despair

floats from me onto you at night

when my life and my mind are blank

warm up my legs with your hot flank

even if you can repair nothing

love me

share my solitude at least

love me

love me
 

my dog, my beast

~
 

ЛЮБИ МЕНЯ
 

Люби меня

Люби меня по утрам

когда с сигаретным хрипением в груди

я завариваю невидящими руками первую чашку кофе

не обращая на тебя внимания
 

Люби меня днем

когда я занята важными делами

куда важнее, чем твоя мелкая животная тоска

И вечером люби

хотя любовь твоя считается низшего сорта

и на шкале ценностей находится где-то возле спорта
 

Люби, когда от меня

Наплывает на тебя черная волна мрака

и грей мне ноги по ночам своим горячим боком

чтоб не было так грустно-одиноко

Люби меня

люби меня
 

люби меня, моя собака

About the Author:

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Julia Wiener
Jerusalem, Israel

Julia Wiener (July 22, 1935, Moscow – February 13, 2022, Jerusalem) was a bilingual writer, poet, scriptwriter, and translator. She said about herself: “I had lived the first half of my life as a Jew in the USSR and the second half of it as a Russian in Israel.” In the USSR, she earned her living by scriptwriting for Moscow TV; later, later by doing literary translations. She emigrated to Israel in 1971. She wrote and published both poetry and prose. She translated poetry and fiction from Hebrew, English, French, German, Polish, and Dutch. She was married to Johannes Hendrik Fernhout (1913—1987), a Dutch filmmaker, until his death in 1987.

Titles of her books (in Russian): «Снег в Гефсиманском саду», «На воздушном шаре — туда и обратно», «Собака и её хозяйка», «Смерть в доме творчества», «Былое и выдумки», «Красный адамант», «О деньгах, о старости, о смерти», «Место для жизни. Квартирные рассказы».

Julia Wiener Юлия Винер
Bookshelf
fireflies
by Dmitri Manin, Anna Krushelnitskaya

A hybrid scholarly and literary volume of popular Russian-language Soviet children’s texts alongside essays that outline the significance and meanings behind these popular texts.

cockroach cover
by Nina Kossman

A collection of nonsense poetry for readers who love Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and all things delightfully peculiar.

Naza s book
by Naza Semoniff

A haunting dystopia some readers have called “the new 1984.” In a society where memory is rewritten and resistance is pre-approved, freedom isn’t restricted; it’s redefined. As systems evolve beyond human control and choice becomes a simulation, true defiance means refusing the script, even when the system already knows you will.

Version 1.0.0
by Nina Kossman

 

A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” -Ilya Kaminsky

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min