Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Murder

No one sleeps more beautifully than you.
But I am afraid
that you will waken just now,
and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing,
and commit the murder of beauty.


1984
Translated by Albert C. Todd

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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