Daniil Kharms: Hunger
15. June 2011 08:25
You never know who walks into Café Central—to share your thoughts.
This is how hunger begins:
In the morning you wake lively,
Then weakness,
Then boredom,
Then comes the loss
Of quick reason's strength—
Then comes calm,
And then horror.
from The Blue Notebook
Translated from the Russian by Matvei Yankelevich