By Daniil Kharms
Once upon a time a person, feeling hungry, sat
At a table and ate meatballs,
While beside him stood his spouse and kept talking about how
The meatballs lacked enough pork.
However, he ate and ate and ate and ate and ate, until
He felt somewhere in his belly a deadly
Weight.
Then, having pushed away the cunning sustenance, he shuddered
And, at once, wept;
In his pocket a golden watch stopped ticking;
His hair suddenly turned pale, his gaze became clear;
His ears fell to the floor, like during fall months fall yellow leaves;
Fall from poplars and towards grassy floors.
So that he immediately died.