Via :
https://alfare.livejournal.com/1179274.html "It was the month of May...
A hackneyed line.
But there was a month - there was no getting away from it.
For now
when we are over forty,
We take care of our childhood drop by drop.
It was May.
The stars rolled into the quinoa,
Overgrown at the old gates.
In those days -
for your own happiness and misfortune,
I read "Aelita" for the first time.
I was burned with joy and longing,
The wooden city rang like space,
And, like the shadow of Martian rocks,
There was a shadow of kiosks on the fences.
There were two of us.
Fly to Mars
Children's counting helped us.
And honestly I forgot every time
That Aelita's name was simply Galka.
Aelitus has a beautiful soul
And a miraculous gift -
Ethereal and clear:
Galka knew how to listen without breathing,
That,
that I trusted others in vain.
But Aelita's fate is bitter:
They are destined for separation and sorrow.
June came,
and Galka was taken away.
And Mars went out.
And the stars fell silent.
And yet the fairy tale does not pass without a trace,
And the trace remained.
On the Threshold of Summer
We are
before parting forever,
We discovered a new planet with Galka..."
-Vladislav Krapivin
via dr. π (pi)
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