Angelika Rubenstein

Я пришёл к тебе как камень-
Я пришел кудрявый, громкий и ужасный.
Ты щелкнул языком, и я засмеялся
Замесив мою кожу, как тесто, ты превратил мои шесть глаз в два,

C hated everyone, she went unnoticed, eating up the forgotten ones like a crocodile, her jaw hanging open,
still.
B was for the rejects, the ones who wandered around and blew on dusted walls,
The ones who peeked at their father’s sh…

He ran alongside the bus all the way across town,
He didn’t break a sweat as he jogged up to the corner where my bus stopped.
I waited in the line to exit, I tugged on the hem of the suffocating blue tunic.
It was hot, too hot.

She was loved at an arms distance. From her head writhed
Snakes, from those snakes
Curled fangs.
Medusa, she was loved at an arms distance