What can I say as a man of letter?
That life is tough, but life is good.
I wish I would make it slightly better.
I think I would. But if I could.
I choose between exalted cares,
Esoteric spirit, "Earnest" mind
And simple necessities of bear
And other humble unpretentious kind.
The eternal question "To be or not?"
I decide (of course) - "I am, and I will".
But there is some bothering spot -
How to be over the hill?
But life is unidirectional thing.
You cannot turn the carriage back.
And if somebody was once a King
BEarely will be later a Jack.
Bear-Hamlet is sitting in empty bed
And trying to solve one simple thing
In beautiful mind of sawdust head -
To be a Jack or to be a King?