Friday, January 20, 2017

A Toast for Inauguration Day 2017

From the poems of Anna Akhmatova,

I drink to our demolished house,
To all this wickedness,

 [...]

The coarse, brutal world, the fact
That God has not saved us.

       (1934, Trans. by D.M. Thomas)



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