КОМУ И НА КОЙ ЛЯД ЦЕЛОВАЛЬНЫЙ ОБРЯД Верующий...

TO WHOM AND FOR WHAT ICE
TOTAL RITE

Believer peasant
or unbeliever,
whether it is necessary or not,
but always
strives
perform rituals.


They run into the church
or to the red corner,
baptized,
stare eyes, -
and then
strive to lick each other,
or a priest's paw,
or image.
Walked
through the village
pimply cripple.
This is a cripple -
need a healer.
And the cripple snorts:
"God will help."
Stopped at the image -
and in the image of a smack.


Sucked on the icon
long and strong.
And while
stuck out dirty lips,
from the ruins
on the image
crawled bacillin -
contagious
sat a little
and multiplied.
And in a minute,
walking
for the sake
the first altar feast,
Vavila Gryaznushkin,
stoeros uncle,
has stopped
and baptized himself at the dirty icon.
Finished with hallelujah
like a louse
into the icon
Vavila
clung to kisses,
yes so much
what kind of coattails you can't tear off.


Five minutes
bacilli
crawled
with icons
on the lip of Babel.
Prayed
and carried the bacilli Gryaznushkin.
Joyful goes
freckles already shine!
It goes.
Because of the hut
before Babylon
Masha got up -
Babilina is cute.
For the holiday
in earnest
gripped Vavila
lips
to Mashutka.
Must have been a dozen
bacillus after bacillus,
crawled into the mouth of the dear.
Vavila
shines,
it hurts the eye
soon the wedding is drawn by the mind.
Towards - godfather.
"We kiss
on the occasion of the throne! "
Kissed
and godfather
conveyed
infection.
Got home,
the family called
and kissed everyone -
from small to large;
before that I burst into tears this year,
what even
dog
Polkana
kissed on the go.
Total,
neither more nor less -
listen,
n_a_ the word believing, -
about a hundred and fifty people he called
and
one beast.
And those
infection
in its turn
passed -
who - to mother,
who - to the son,
who are daughters.
In one day
at night
Babila woke up,
as if
lip to him
wheel crushed.
He looked in the mirror.
Power of the Cross!
Ear to ear
lip twisted.


And already
and milf
looking for a mirror.
"What is this, - he says, -
like a mountain
bastard?
One by one a relative crawls out.
Relatives
lips
galoshes like.
The kind of relatives -
not relatives
but ugly.
Polkan -
and that
growling
rolls over
and tears his lip from the shoulder.
Licked the cat.
Disease tu
passed it to the cat.
The cat meows
squeaks and runs.
Because of the lip
the bridge of the nose is not visible.
By morning the whole village howled -
half a village
drove to the graves.
Only a dog
yes cat
barely survived.
And then -
shouted.
Left
from the village
only twenty people -
did not believe
did not apply
and did not want to kiss.
In a year
explained
one doctor for them,
that the village
got sick
horse abscess.
Peasants,
if you don't draw a conclusion yourself -
here he is:
do not stand with gaps in the images,
lip
do not crawl around with dirty images,
do not confess -
and you won't
with mare-lipped images.
[1923] V. Mayakovsky