"On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words."

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"1" (1913); translation from Vladimir Mayakovsky. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Ed. with introd. by Patricia Blake. Trans. by Max Hayward and George Reavey. Reprint. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 1975 [1960]. . p. 53.