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Abramov Descending

I

Imagine stopping on the heath,
looking up from your phone
one time to see something like this:
arse-first, a whirly bird —
descending,
the landing lights bleaching your sneakers
even as you stare,
unable to find even an outline of those inside
with your peepers.

Fernushka, come with me,
walk here ..........................
there's only good options for you in blue.
Win the league with us, the Champions League too —
yes, all the trophies —
it is all that I want,
and all that you want too
I think yes?

II

What do you think will happen,
Nino Fernando Josévich,
if you stay here?
Come wear the blue,
royalty like you needs riches ......
your imperial features would be wasted, here,
in this nothing backwater oblast,
and that will not do ... Kikovich ...

I am making Chelsea Bridge a palace! It will be such a spectacle......
here......... see what I mean.........
The overcoated autocrat
pulled a Nokia from his pocket,
opened it to a PowerPoint and there,
in the flip-phone light
beneath the idling rotor blades
shone the glowing face of a mind, made.