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).
a collection of pretty things
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