Psychedelic couplets - Reprinted from the magazine "Peasant Woman" N5, 1990.

 psychedelic couplets
                                        
                                        
 reprinted from the magazine
                   "peasant woman" N5, 1990
                                        
                                        
I'm a scarecrow, I'm a scarecrow,                     
I'm an unfortunate freak!                      
                                        
(Gregory Krugkov, “garden scarecrow”)  
                                        
                                        
 Marina Boroditskaya
                                        
                                        
frog and pumpkin                       
*- -*                     
                                        
The frog asked the pumpkin: “Are you a kwa?”   
but she remained silent in response.               
- little beggar! is she alive or dead?        
tell me yes or no?                
                                        
the frog tapped it with his palm         
and poked the pumpkin with her foot,                   
and the pumpkin was lying in the gardenhis          
and the crust glistened tight.                
                                        
- pumpkin? - the croak squealed. -     
pumpkin?                               
until he whispered to her:                 
- a good pumpkin is always like this:          
keep silent, know that it grows.             
                                        
                                        
 fairies                                   
*- -*                                 
                                        
I am a hand mirror                      
left it in the garden                        
so that fairies under the moon                      
skated like on ice.                  
                                        
...remained on the mirror                
needles and twigs.                       
lazy people! dashed off -                  
and quit their skates.