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Home stretch on my deep annotation!

I’m just now nearly through my close annotation of Marina Tsvetaeva’s “the poem of the end” and I keep being reminded of how much a translation can say about the translator, rather than the writer themself. I can’t wait for the day that my Russian Vocabulary is good enough that I can read it on its own!

only what they mean is, if you’d given up your artsy friends for workers that would have been a good influence and you would have been saved / What the hell do they think / workers drink? / Lemonade?

I can think of one thing only--night 34

I’m not so terrifying I could kill, / And I’m not so simple I don’t know / That life is the terrifying thing.

I’m the gardener and the flower, too (13)