I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Talking Writing Monster’s Page –

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Такахама Кёси – Ливень прошел by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Кончик трости моей by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Кажется мне by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Как ярко сияет by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Как никогда by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Иокогама в утро моего возвращения из Франции by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Грущу о былом by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Драчливые петухи by Поэзия На Русском
• Такахама Кёси – Давнишний приятель by Поэзия На Русском
• Степан Щипачев – Зрение by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Застольное слово by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – За селом синел далекий лес by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Высота by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – У моря by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Тебе by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Свет звезды by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Соловей by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Шар земной by Степан Щипачёв
• Степан Щипачев – Ровеснику by Степан Щипачёв

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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