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Obstacles

Leonid Rozumenko 1961 (Kyiv)

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Your haircut could tell
How glasses messed with a barber.
And you don’t need a spell
To have the extra number:

The good composer knows
His true opponent faces, -
It’s not the boos or wows,
But taste and fashion braces.

It’s what you have in hand, -
Your time, your tools, musicians,
The courage of your brand,
Your own superstitions!

And it’s an extra view
For use of English grammar, -
It hurts the soul in you
And treats you like a stammer.

Psychiatry is jam
Which steals from people wealth,
And force of driving them
To cry about themselves!
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Written on 2001

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Scheme ABAB XCXC DEDE FBFB XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 536
Words 101
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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Leonid Rozumenko

Someone in your domain asks me to send a letter about myself. My pleasure - favorite topic. Who am I? Can’t keep a secret - athletic, open-minded, and generous, with a wide scope, love for women, good company. With love for science and to write something everlasting, which isn’t computer programming anymore. I was born in gorgeous Kyiv (Ukraine) more than 35 years ago, lived in the USA for longer than 4 years and my language is still in progress. My poetry is also a colorful picture of the unseeing battle between “yours truly” and English grammar. My Ukrainian or Russian accent has two unreliable reasons – it’s “for fun” and “hard to get rid of”. The meaning of my last name “Rozumenko” in Ukrainian is very close to “jaba-jaba a dada” in “Crocodile Dundee II”. I have several other weaknesses but I introduce them only to my closest friends. Yours truly, Leo Rozumenko more…

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