And I go out from space

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From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: И я выхожу из пространства

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XI.   And I go out from space Into the abandoned garden of values, And pick off fake constancy And self-consciousness of reasons. And your, infinity, textbook I read alone in my solitude — The leafless, wild medical manual, Assignment book of enormous roots. November 1933, Moscow

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