anna von karenin
ivanpetryshyn
ivan Petryshyn
july 23, 2013
somebody teaches “Anna Karenina”

not knowing Russian, not being a Slav,

nor being a man-writer,

thinking his thoughts are whiter,

thinking his fate is brighter…

teaching to nobly be ego-killed,

still dreaming of a kilt,

not accepting the guilt

of the slanderous lot,

trying to set up a plot

just to revenge the book’s fate

to debate

a possible execution

of all the men who write

being an angel of the Fight

to filter the light

not allowing a lie,

being ready to die,

as a lover-and-wife

from an injustice knife

that was doomed to dive

into the purity queendom,

at the pace of random,

with the odor of dandron

to reject the morales

that always fail,

when crystal love for a male

nails a woman to rails

of the train in the rain

letting her free again.

ivan Petryshyn ​