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Eugene Mirvis
The Sixth Commandment
Thou Shalt Not Kill
“We killed so much in ourselves, without giving birth, Rise!
Landau, who died in the slanted lab assistant, Rise!
Copernicus, who died in the Landau of gallantry, Rise!
you, girl in the jazz band, do you remember the school bows? Rise!
You, who squandered talents’ holy seeds, Rise!”
Translated from A. Voznesensky
I
How many people need to die to prove somebody’s view?
All killed in wars, mass terrorized to serve a very few.
Because our enemies are damned and we are always right!
We do not think until the end: to kill’s war’s dues and pride.
II
The meaner scoundrel quickly finds excuses for his sins.
His conscience rarely gets involved to suffer moral spins.
We know that primitive cavemen cannibalized some moments,
Now we don’t murder for the meal, but kill just our opponents.
III
Not even “kill”, we “cancel” them, don’t deal with blood and bodies.
We just get rid of stubborn bumps for t’ sake of “true” almighty
We cancel private hopes and wits. Enslave the talents’ seeds,
While for the prisoners in jails, we grant free care and feed.
IV
When a man is well and a solid dude, and very much alive,
He builds his life-long attitude for hoping to survive.
He knows what his faith it is, he knows what it’s not.
He knows how to reject invasive foreign Gods.
V
He values, and he cherishes, his parents, wife and kids,
His property, relations, takes care of every need.
He makes his time to think of, new problems, and new gains,
He doesn’t utter ever his sacred dreams in vain.
VI
But if you put him into environments of hate
Badmouth him and slander in the wrongful trick betrayals
If people try to use him, and everything he has
Including kids, and challenge his wife’s devoted grace
VII
If his achievements ’re stolen by scams or by surprise,
or mocked and smeared, the values that he counts on to be prized
No need to kill him, ever: his body’s just a shell,
in there is almost nothing: no hopes to be propelled
VIII
If envies mute life’s leisure, the slanderers’ lies are gathered
If stealers stole his treasures, the lechers spoiled his pleasure,
His children scorn his measures, his faith’s not in main trends, -
Redundant this commandment, - you cannot kill the dead.

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