Withoutness

And thus each of us goes on living his own long day
in emptiness, consisting of sheer withoutness.
It looks like it’s all endurable and headaches
Result from magnetic storms as they can’t be groundless.

It looks like those muscles that drag our cheeks to smile
or make our shoulders shrug with possible doubts
are subject to weather conditions, and, I must say,
it doesn’t in fact make each day any harder, does it?

2010
Russian version