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On Noses

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Nose Grower, ©2013.

Why, O Prime Mover of Noses, why
Do our noses grow longer, our lives shorter,
Why during the night should these fleshly lumps,
Like vampires or suction-pumps,
Drain us dry?

from The Nose,  Andrei Voznesensky, Antiworlds
translated by W.H. Auden

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1966/apr/14/five-poems-by-andrei-voznesensky/?pagination=false

Published September 30, 2013By sarah_figlio1
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