Friday, April 3, 2009

Body of Yogurt

Primus by Osip Mandelshtam

"I'm raw and uneducated,
it's easy for me to become yogurt,"
said the raw milk
to the boiled.

But the boiled
answers tenderly,
"I'm no mollycoddle,
I have skin!"


Illustration by Mstilav Dobuzhinsky (1875 - 1957).

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