MYKYTA RYZHYKH
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people don't want to die either
in spring or summer
prisons are open all year round
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sad clowns
die with a smile
every time
performed on stage
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nightingale staged a night gala
every night he flies to my yard
even after my death
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torn faces
litter
torn tracks
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statues also die
and time is not easy to consider
among all that one
in memory of which one today
the bells are ringing in the church
Mykyta Ryzhykh, the recipient of numerous literary honors and awards, is a poet from Nova Kakhovka City, Ukraine.