Особый резон [Osobyy rezon] [English translation]

By glowering twisted lips

Moles having rubbed their eyelids

Now see the plantlet's dissent

Across the short-sighted eyes

No more believing in cries

Moves the conveyor of sand

Until the hand halts its tremble

The knuckles shake at a temple

And calls the angled thick plank

And I am at the peep-hole

Under the thumb of plafond

Either1 it was an egg first

Or it had been a bad curse

My face is turning towards

A nightmare boggled the dream

A newborn mason–I sing

Right in unison with him

The flying wind's rudely scorched

The far rocks' tops it approached

And here it's stroking the lawn

There's a distinct reason shown

Watched by the Special Bureau

That's just what prison is for

There's a distinct reason for

The escort trickled through the flaws

Will seal the windows with straw

Then to the slaughter we'll go

A hero will cross himself 2

The open order will step

Ahead guys, into the breach!

Then will go west the foe troops

Who did not put on high boots

Who did not part with themselves

Who have not yet killed themselves

And to the slaughter they'll go

Watched by the Special Bureau

That's just what prison is for

There's a distinct reason for

1. It could be "whether" depending on how one would translate this line which could be translated as a question either in direct or in indirect speech.2. This means he will make the sign of the cross in front of his chest to invoke divine protection.

• Artist:Yanka Dyagileva