Wireless technologies
and carried a blue envelope to the North
N. Tikhonov
*
when two cellulars
lie side by side
it's so much like
pillow talk
seems
they whisper
something
to each other
using
IrDA
*
they used to say
it's in the air
and
i just felt you needed me
that's why i'm here
now they say
got your e-mail
we have wi-fi
all around here
*
his palm pilot
against yours
calm down
everything's gonna be okay
it's getting dark early
because it's fall
look you recognize
my handwriting
and i recognize yours
that’s already saying something
for people like us
bluetooth is gasping its way
through the thin air
with a blue envelope
but you already
know all about it
*
its so good we have
SMS
right in the middle
of a crowded
honking Smolenka
(the whole city
has been stuck
for three hours now)
you can ask
how’s it going?
can answer
i love you too
ten years ago it took
your whole life
*
sometimes you think
maybe it's really worth
asking Him
for you know
something or other
and then
you understand oh no
what a crowd
there’s no chance
with this sickly
GPRS of ours
*
reading the news
via WAP
it still seems
war is
at the door
*
call me
when you can,
okay? the third
ring road
is barely
moving
oh fuck
traffic jam at Sushchevka
we’re stuck dead
they say there was an explosion
call me
if we're both alive
let's tell each other something
really important
like
it does drive me crazy
when you can't
choose a yogurt
for breakfast
at the grocery
because i'm afraid
to choose the one
you don't really like
Translated by Stanislav Lvovsky and Stiven Boikevich
and carried a blue envelope to the North
N. Tikhonov
*
when two cellulars
lie side by side
it's so much like
pillow talk
seems
they whisper
something
to each other
using
IrDA
*
they used to say
it's in the air
and
i just felt you needed me
that's why i'm here
now they say
got your e-mail
we have wi-fi
all around here
*
his palm pilot
against yours
calm down
everything's gonna be okay
it's getting dark early
because it's fall
look you recognize
my handwriting
and i recognize yours
that’s already saying something
for people like us
bluetooth is gasping its way
through the thin air
with a blue envelope
but you already
know all about it
*
its so good we have
SMS
right in the middle
of a crowded
honking Smolenka
(the whole city
has been stuck
for three hours now)
you can ask
how’s it going?
can answer
i love you too
ten years ago it took
your whole life
*
sometimes you think
maybe it's really worth
asking Him
for you know
something or other
and then
you understand oh no
what a crowd
there’s no chance
with this sickly
GPRS of ours
*
reading the news
via WAP
it still seems
war is
at the door
*
call me
when you can,
okay? the third
ring road
is barely
moving
oh fuck
traffic jam at Sushchevka
we’re stuck dead
they say there was an explosion
call me
if we're both alive
let's tell each other something
really important
like
it does drive me crazy
when you can't
choose a yogurt
for breakfast
at the grocery
because i'm afraid
to choose the one
you don't really like
Translated by Stanislav Lvovsky and Stiven Boikevich