Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature

by Dmitri Prigov
     translated by Sibelan Forrester 

Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature: A Reader.The Thaw and Stagnation.Edited by Mark Lipovetsky and Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya. Boston: Academic Studies Press, Vol. 2,2015, 582–585.

We all face the threat of freedom
Freedom without end
With no way out, with no way in
Without mother or father

In the very middle of Rus’
For the whole past century
And I am terrified of it
As a decent man.