Навіщо. What For

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Spring. Thermal underwear becomes cheaper.

This girl needs twenty sets of it.

She will ransom a boy with the Down syndrome for them

From near Donetsk,

From an orphanage that’s left on the other side of the frontline.

And maybe they’ll give her a girl, too.

It depends on the mood of the seller.

They could be fed then

And hugged.

Those kids are very gentle, you know,

They are also called Sun Children.

It’s just that they have one chromosome more,

And this is why there’s no aggression in them at all,

No such habitual human feature.

They don’t understand at all what a war is,

And what it means to kill.

And why you have to hide in cellars.

And where are all those to whom you may cuddle and smile.

And when everything will be as it used to be.

They say this is a redundant chromosome.

Or not redundant…

3 March 2015