Daniil Ivanovich Kharms Poems

  • 1.
    Daughter of the daughter of the daughters of the daughter Pe
    foreto the apple you ate of yee
    beguiling Adam's heights foreto you favorite daughter of the daughter of Pe
    being the Mother of the world and the world itself and the child of the world being
    ...
  • 2.
    He looks at me with a madman's eyes -
    It's your house and porch I know so well.
    He gives me a kiss with his crimson lips -
    Our ancestors had gone to war in scales of steel.
    ...
  • 3.
    Petrov: Hey, Kamarov, old chap!
    Let's catch a few of these gnats!
    Kamarov: No, I'm not yet up to that;
    We'd do better to catch some tom-cats!
    ...
  • 4.
    GRANNY Bobrov (Playing patience) Now that's the card. Oh, it's all coming out topsy-turvy! A king. And where am I supposed to put that? Just when you want one, there's never a five around. Oh, I could do with a five! Now it'll be the five. Oh, sod it, another king!

    She flings the cards on to the table with such force that a porcelain vase falls off the table and smashes.

    ...
  • 5.
    Markov took off his boots and, with a deep breath, lay down on the divan.
    He felt sleepy but, as soon as he closed his eyes, the desire for sleep immediately passed. Markov opened his eyes and stretched out his hand for a book. But sleep again came over him and, not even reaching the book, Markov lay down and once more closed his eyes. But, the moment his eyes closed, sleepiness left him again and his consciousness became so clear that Markov could solve in his head algebraical problems involving equations with two unknown quantities.
    Markov was tormented for quite some time, not knowing what to do: should he sleep or should he liven himself up? Finally, exhausted and thoroughly sick of himself and his room, Markov put on his coat and hat, took his walking cane and went out on to the street. The fresh breeze calmed Makarov down, he became rather more at one with himself and felt like going back home to his room.
    Upon going into his room, he experienced an agreeable bodily fatigue and felt like sleeping. But, as soon as he lay down on the divan and closed his eyes, his sleepiness instantly evaporated.
    ...
  • 6.
    There was a red-haired man who had no eyes or ears.
    Neither did he have any hair, so he was called red-haired theoretically.

    He couldn't speak, since he didn't have a mouth. Neither did he have a nose.
    ...
  • 7.
    We shall close our eyes,
    O people! O people!
    We shall open our eyes,
    O warriors! O warriors!
    ...
  • 8.
    But the artist sat the nude model on the table and moved her legs apart. The girl hardly resisted and merely covered her face with her hands.

    Amonova and Strakhova said that first the girl should have been taken off to the bathroom and washed between her legs, as any whiff of such an aroma was simply repulsive.
    The girl wanted to jump up but the artist held her back and asked her to take no notice and sit there, just as he had placed her. The girl, not knowing what she was supposed to do, sat back down again.
    ...
  • 9.
    Pyotr Pavlovich (entering the room):
    Zdagger Upper Ooster Ooster
    I am carrying someone's elbow
    Zdagger Upper Ooster Ooster
    ...
Total 9 Poems by Daniil Ivanovich Kharms

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