“Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.”

In Memory of M. B.
Context: Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.
Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn
at your dumb funeral feast.

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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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