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'Vladimir Mayakovsky and That's What '
Introduction by John Wakeman

'Translating Mayakovsky's That's What' by George Hyde

What's This? — That's What
I. The Ballad of Reading Gaol
II. Christmas Eve

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Notes

Biographical Notes

List of photomontages by Alexander Rodchenko

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She lies / in bed. / While he... / On the table is a telephone.

from the cable / crawled — / scratching jealously — / a monster from troglodytic / times.

I paw at / my ears / kneading uselessly. / I hear / my own / my very own voice. / The knife / of this voice bores through / my paws.

So it ever was / And ever shall be / World without end. / The old mare / of the daily grind / canters on serenely.

And again / the walls / baked hot like the steppe / echo / and sigh / in your ears, in the two-step.

I catch my balance / waving frantically.

Four times I try — / four times / resuscitated

She too / — she used to like animals — / will come to the Public Gardens

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