“Hell and damnation,
life is such fun
with a ragged greatcoat
and a Jerry gun!”

— Alexander Blok, The Twelve

The Twelve (1918); translation from Jon Stallworthy and Peter France (trans.) The Twelve, and Other Poems (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 147.

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poet 1880–1921

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