From the time (in anticipation -edited)

from the time

you landed maybe until you might wake up knowing night was figment the buildings tall sleekness etched chunk architectures borrowed and built to remain civil in the way that organisms take space and grow from center out stalin marked his mass with bigger blocks in an older strain not of this century but the river’s ice can support the city in times of need large trucks rolled across frozen water the worst floods are marked with iron quarters were germans got their own high water line russian corners in this room and that still painting over twelve languages of graphiti to rosko’s murder happened in a book but the stairs will echo his steps exhaustive walking wears away what can be written into stones zdes ohn napisal prestuplenya e nakazanya or its not his city in the seems bursting countryside clerks there’s twenty thousand memoires floating in the pages of zapiski iz podpolya the thing is its not about hiding if it weren’t for ownership the flats we used as temporary housing for the jet set elite in soviet times mark this hall with exposed piping set out with brass knobs to look less shoddy shoe repair is tops in small wooden shacks on the street is something missed in every museum you just can’t take in whole stories here rolling on the grass with a chain collar his claws haven’t quite learned how deadly we have become speaking candidly my favorite club was underground they called boonkar on its roof was patio far at street level jenya came back from chicago at twelve she came back here knowing the lingo can make money lips drunken the closer we spoke and scream she leaning forward just far enough and tight top low vee-cut I couldn’t not bare but stare back to the subject of literary stigmatas shelves in every pub crawl with books and zoom cafes the check on page thirty-six now mates with lenin and maybe the waitress borrowed her mother’s dress to pioneer the new western freedoms here’s a tv with cherenko walking by and zip to fucking forms in soft core shells landed in spilled blood’s fifth dome knocking down a big chunk o jesus was originally of three domes for father son and holy coat of arms triangulated on their gold crowns until mountain men painted heaven’s glorylaid out on every corner unlike other churches sasha said you have to be dressed prelechnya what you choose to wear is your business but take off the star five points to it and its everywhere like mars field flames to fan it still burns in everything never is forgotten time memorials 1881 at 20:36 someone had to stop the rain which keeps it all green and the water was high enough to submerge the first floor cellars where the best eats still sink down under the building just far enough for the stray dog to seem filled with smoke and the green fumes of absinth fueling liberation’s freedom from lucid resignations for the dead like vrubel’s lavender gestalt generally understood you have to come to terms with food and the power wielded by grocery stores have now succumb to supermarkets and dixie lies around every corner shops stay open all the time and each one has a state sponsored drunk across from my hotel his name was kolya and looked like he was close to sainthood at twenty three for the solstice and the last bell where they give them the city that he hasn’t yet returned for their own uses can you tell that things revolve and you can live for celebration and acceleration while moods are not advised for foreigners there are still niggers and a nigger is a nigger he tried to tell the cop that they were cousins and he was a racist because he was the only black man on the streets while making quick work of something that should be kept indoors the goom displays cases against the jews because sasha couldn’t understand why they died the same but death isn’t unknowable and he knew that they were dead but still reviled even in death there’s no such thing as a jewish hero of the soviet and something like perestroika enduring the longest hatred has got to be a civil duty to serve at eighteen while vera asked her to go na belayi notche and we were followed by body guards for ten days of canon’s hand and the huge motif of what’s really quite a small head in exaggerated relief aid was something that a people must do for themselves while shostokovich wrote a symphony under siege this city is always playing even when you can’t stop looking look again at your watch telling you one thing and if it were the 19^th centuries’ clock faced grin you’d wonder if he’s the worst sort of man that can’t even hold his liquor while you’re sitting on the shitter when the revolution came the aurora glowed on nevya where she rusts to the racket of a nearby caravan of busses in five indo-european peoples we were fucked by the mongols and then took turns being done and doing sweeden declared in olden times the worst enemy but it was not a crime open to imagination you think if they see it somehow reversed like a dove flying through a mirror and every square has been mistranslated into its current form zamak and zamok mean they have a natural and integral link if you could unlock one to get to the other side of the river isn’t quit the same here in the center of the city you’ll be kept well and hospitable and for fifty bucks she’ll make you orgasm all night long listen you call me next time you come here as the rain fell I thought back to his job and couldn’t help but chuckle that everyone thinks they’ve been deceived s’mokrayi dela the cops will leave you be for fifteen hundred it’s the most expensive piss you’ve ever given that the west doesn’t understand the beauty of birch in the thickest of ancient slavic bath houses its purely a russian phenomenon to want something more you ask in metrics drink in english pubs around the world are just as bad outside of england similarly overpriced markets for colorful knick knacks patty whack this old night went rolling into that bronze horseman on the whicker rock he rode down but as you enter the place where five million people dwell and you can’t help but feel that devastation was built into the design of the city