G. PLISETSKY: "It's Better To Steal..."

"It's Better To Steal..."

(From Omar Khayyam)
It’s better to steal, to be hungry and lost, 
Than once to lick dishes of power hosts. 
It’s better to gnaw bare bones than ever
To eat sweets from tables of scams of high posts.


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, February, 2003