Su*

(* water, from Tatar)  

what I don’t like most in life is

picking up the telephone, and it asks

to call someone to the phone,

and you have to answer:

he died or she died

(because he died or she died).

and sometimes you start crying,

and people with sometimes the other side begins to cry

(death causes such a reaction).

one day they called me from the tax office, and there

it was no longer possible to cry, and they themselves are so

dry (although a little surprise slipped

into the voice), and I did well, I said it and didn’t cry,

but I hung up the phone angrily - as if it was their

fault.