The Postgraduate Ballads

“I had the bad luck to become a student in the former USSR just after its dissolution; that is, during the Big Grab time when humans were allowed to show the worst, the darkest parts of their nature. And the humans did it! That’s why my Postgraduate Ballads are so angry and full of misanthropy.

The texts below are nothing but an interlinear translation, and I’ll be happy if a person with better English rewrites them. My special gratitude to Kristina Shramkovskaya who has translated one of the poems. Please, forgive us for mistakes in English; we are not native speakers!

And let my professors and university mates forgive me!"

• ● The texts