...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice
rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece
of ripened memory which is twice
as hole-ridden as real cheese.
...
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To his spoken part. To a part of speech. - I admire, Joseph, your ability to raise a person or a reader from material to spiritual heights- such abstract as a part of speech.
Absolute excellent poem by the great Brodsky. His way of telling the poem, makes the poem more attractive and becomes A THOUGHT-PROVOKING Poem