Poetry and Russians
Apr. 9th, 2011 10:18 amSadly, I have no Russian poetry to share.
Firstly: those who are inclined to resent the Russian userbase of livejournal for the current DDoS debacle (or anything else) should perhaps go and read Syn's latest DW post on LJ Russia, the DDoS attacks, and why LJ would probably not exist at all anymore if it weren't for lj.ru. And you should also read the New Yorker's article on Alexey Navalny's anti-corruption efforts and consider the critical role LJ has to play in this sort of activity in Russia. To quote![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
holyschist's comment to Syn's post: maybe quashing free speech in Russia is actually a bigger problem than the inconvenience to English-language users..
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On with the poetry!
Not My Best Side
(Read accompanied by this picture)
I
Not my best side, I'm afraid.
The artist didn't give me a chance to
Pose properly, and as you can see,
Poor chap, he had this obsession with
Triangles, so he left off two of my
Feet. I didn't comment at the time
(What, after all, are two feet
To a monster?) but afterwards
I was sorry for the bad publicity.
Why, I said to myself, should my conqueror
Be so ostentatiously beardless, and ride
A horse with a deformed neck and square hoofs?
Why should my victim be so
Unattractive as to be inedible,
And why should she have me literally
On a string? I don't mind dying
Ritually, since I always rise again,
But I should have liked a little more blood
To show they were taking me seriously.
( II, III )
By U.A. Fanthorpe (1929 - 2009)
Firstly: those who are inclined to resent the Russian userbase of livejournal for the current DDoS debacle (or anything else) should perhaps go and read Syn's latest DW post on LJ Russia, the DDoS attacks, and why LJ would probably not exist at all anymore if it weren't for lj.ru. And you should also read the New Yorker's article on Alexey Navalny's anti-corruption efforts and consider the critical role LJ has to play in this sort of activity in Russia. To quote
holyschist's comment to Syn's post: maybe quashing free speech in Russia is actually a bigger problem than the inconvenience to English-language users..----
On with the poetry!
Not My Best Side
(Read accompanied by this picture)
I
Not my best side, I'm afraid.
The artist didn't give me a chance to
Pose properly, and as you can see,
Poor chap, he had this obsession with
Triangles, so he left off two of my
Feet. I didn't comment at the time
(What, after all, are two feet
To a monster?) but afterwards
I was sorry for the bad publicity.
Why, I said to myself, should my conqueror
Be so ostentatiously beardless, and ride
A horse with a deformed neck and square hoofs?
Why should my victim be so
Unattractive as to be inedible,
And why should she have me literally
On a string? I don't mind dying
Ritually, since I always rise again,
But I should have liked a little more blood
To show they were taking me seriously.
( II, III )
By U.A. Fanthorpe (1929 - 2009)