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Telephone cries at the door
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| Telephone cries at the door... written by Osip Mandelstam |
| Poems for Children, No. 7 from the cycle “The Primus” written in 1924. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Плачет телефон в квартире… |
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Telephone cries at the door:
One-two minutes, three or four,
Stopped and stated angrily:
— Nobody approaches me!
Nobody needs me at all,
I’m insulted, caught a cold,
Only telephones-old-beings
Comprehend my gloomy dings!
1924
