— You have a crazy-ass beard! — my twelve-year-old seatmate on the bus says, — I really dig it.
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Ilya אש Ash
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Poet and journalist based in and around Jerusalem. A Moscow transplant, worked in two media outlets later banned/closed in Russia. Shooting daily JLM life. Please, call me Ash. Mostly on Mastodon: zirk.us/@ash Moar: ash.com.co
![THE RED ELEPHANT
The red elephant, my son's toy, you'll be the first invited into my book, so all the other wouldn't be vain.
The red elephant squeaks and whines. All the rubber toys should be squeaking, otherwise why would the air came out them&
So, despite the writings of [Alfred] Brehm, the red elephant squeaks and whines. And I'm writing in my nest high above Arbat street.
A rare bird would reach me without losing its breath. My nest braked my habit of long breaths.
My son is laughing.
He laughed when he saw the horse for the first time. He thought that it made itself four legs and a long face as a joke.
We all manufactured in different shapes, but we all have the same voice, if we're squeezed.
— Move aside, red elephant. I want to see the life without a jest and to tell it something with my voice through the squeaker.
This is the end of a feuilleton.
VICTOR SHKLOVSKY. THIRD FACTORY (1926)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wz6ryuhpl5i57kub4r3bbs2b/bafkreihpgfxkwycakra45p6zpculnzkqnyye5obuhfech2eb4ke5smwwp4)
