random restaurant bullshit

The drunken Russians
at the next table
are out on a date.

They're old and they're ugly.
They roll all their Rs and
they don't speak the crooked

ratatouille of the Jewish.
The man, he proclaims then to no one
partic'lar: «Я иммигрант русский!»1


She covers her mouth then
and shouts at her neighbours:
«Ты, видишь, в шестом,

а я в четвёртом…2 …чё, я вообще там
про них забыла».3

«Я вся вон такая
с корабля там вышла».4
Her husband retorts then:


«…или они тебя по голове
ударили?5 …да, спасибо,
хорошую идею дала.»6

«…вместо до́ма престарелых.»7
In turn someone thought then: "I love
this photo. In frame I will put it."

Angry young Russian drinks down his bourbon.
He too is ugly; he too is burdened.
By all the random restaurant bullshit.



1 "I—immigrant Russian!"

2 "You see, you're in sixth, / and I in fourth one…"

3 "…wha', I have tot'lly / of them forgotten."

4 "I'm really like all that / off the boat went down there."

5 "…or have they then hit you hard on the head / with so much force?"

6 "Why, yes, thank you / a grand idea you've given me."

7 "…in place of the home of elders."