Velimir Khlebnikov — Untitled (Things Got Scattered Out of the Bag)

On By Sergey ArmeyskovIn Poetry, Russian Art

Kazimir Malevich Black Square White on White
Kazimir Malevich – Black Square, between 1920s-1930s (The State Hermitage Museum); White on White, 1918 (MoMA).

Things got scattered out of the bag
On the floor.
And I think
That the world —
Is just a grin
Which gleams
On the lips of a hanged man.

Velimir Khlebnikov (1908).

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