Dumplings with Mayonnaise

Yury Shipkov

I — loudly
recognize myself
as a GE-NI-US
or rather
quietly
and in a whisper
more precisely
I keep silent

I keep silent
but firmly
know
that I am a GENIUS
and all
that I do
is brilliant
although
there are doubts

maybe after all
not everything.
or maybe
it may even be
that nothing
at all
nothing
perhaps
I am not a Genius
but I know one thing
that dumplings
go perfectly with
mayonnaise

why am I saying this?

Ah yes,
I read somewhere
that all geniuses
lived poorly
well then dumplings
can hardly be called
bourgeois food
especially
with mayonnaise

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