“On the pavement
of my trampled soul
the steps of madmen
weave the prints of rude crude words.”

—  Vladimir Mayakovsky

"1" (1913); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 53

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