Всем родившимся шестого июля  шлю свои поздравления. Много...

All those born on the sixth of July

I send my congratulations.

Many people like that

but few I know personally.

Here's a small but rather detailed list:

Julia, Natasha, Alexey, daughter of a friend of his wife,

one man, whom I no longer remember what to call,

and, of course, me.

Let's pick up who:

glasses, glasses, cups,

children's circles, glasses

and let's drink to our health,

for our stubborn, difficult,

largely ungrateful

bloom on this land.

Do I need to say

that our conscience is clear

gait is light, but thoughts

amazing and sad somewhere inside?

We are all: bad, good, good, evil,

necessary and worthless,

respectable and dissolute,

beautiful and ugly,

old and young -

we all wake up in this land

and the seventh of July too.

And we will live.


06.07.2011