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сколько охотников
не пошли за вождями
на мамонтов
в мелких животных не столько еды
но не страшно ловить каждый день
сколько моисеев
но за ними
нет никого
сзади лепёшку дадут
а впереди
только солнце
пустыня и голод
сколько сегодня
поющих осанну
а завтра кричащих
«распни его»
зря не кричите
скоро войдёт легион
и храма не станет
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so many hunters
do not join their chiefs
in killing mammoths
not much food in smaller game
but a lot less fear in catching it
so many moseses
but no one
follows them
they’d hand you flatbread from behind
while ahead
nothing but desert
sunburn, starvation
so many sing
“hosanna” today
and shout “crucify him”
tomorrow
don’t shout in vain
soon a legion will come
and the temple will be no more
Translated from Russian by the poet
Gennadi Kazakevitch was born in Moscow and grew up in Siberia. He graduated from the economics department of Moscow State University. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches economics at Monash University. He is a columnist in Australian media on matters of economics. He authored two collections of poetry in Russian with translations, and his Russian poems were published in various literary journals and collections. He won the first translators’ prize at a literary competition “Emigrantskaya Lira 2019” in Belgium.
