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Emigration

‘You could say that my whole experience of life has been living in communes, only not everyone calls it that’

‘It’s often said on Rainbow that the Rainbow is different for everyone’

“I have never felt detached from my homeland. Or this “when will I see my native birches again” – what the f**k are birches?” Part 2

“And, of course, I write about those I’ve met. I myself am a “marginal”, I myself am a “drug addict”, “traitor to the motherland”. So I am close to such people and stories”. Part 1

“You write it down, and the text takes on a life of its own”

“I wrote all my posters on cardboard the night before the rallies. Here calligraphic beauty and precision are not important at all. The main thing is to be heard”

“I think that in peacetime poetry doesn’t have much influence, and even less in wartime. It’s all about how much stronger and smarter your army is than the enemy’s”

“The legends say that relatives dreamed of the deceased who asked them to untie his legs…”

“You do your best to delay this painful and unpleasant moment of departure. But then there’s a knock, and your heart breaks…”