The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-14


what Mishka spoke ess and Listened RE
uctanty He tired of thinking about it. tired OF repeating "
thing day after day. Before his ughtshuO eyes
like a ribbon unroling
pass d Tashkent, city never-beheld:
city city of of P Rrnsy
High hills enccle it,
u UlhSs P breai,
wheat in grain
wheat in sheaves
Here Trofm broke into Mishkss thoughts whispering loudly
tireless voice:
"TIow pounds will you eat!"
When to Tashkent"
pondered while lifted his heavy lids said softly
For a long time the the child wept
Mujiks coughed in the darkness.
Dc-s barked beyond the station.
cheered and r-ou-3 ed one another fhey
agreed to travel on together Listening to the baflns OF @ g
outside Mshka the vast seppe bare OF men bare Of @
shaggy giant of dog with piece of bread between his teeth
suddenly rolling around together in immense ball
hair flew about the lonely epp Dogs
gared the darkness dogs teeth snapped They tore ean oh
through the station jumping fnging him to the
@ nd and s M R e rs m
his looked around in daze Cries. shouting curses
and Trofim
They're bringing engine!
Groans, shouts, sobs.
"Let through"
me op!'
you're crushing mel"
Little
"Gve him the jaw"
Not only to the little station the deserted
Kirghiz steppe!
Hunger will devour you.
will devour
Misery will devour you.
They cling roofs wheels the buffers the
Wheels the buffers the steps
only this terrible desert Hanging by their
hands trailing along the
get the clutches of threatening faminedeat
the eppe beneath the frozen dogs hair flies
Dogs eyes glare.
| teeth
"For Gods sake-Moher of God!-Make way"
an Christs y"
Comrades! j.
Mishka rushed spot spot whirls
through the human wall around the
wall back and forhon flung back thrust
its whirlpool it sucks down. seehes
around you strangles you, trampes
Mshka rushss the engine meets Tr'fm coming toward him
"Coming?"
"Where?"
me-"
Mshka was radiant with joy-wo is not alone
Trofms sackng along past mujiks and
railroad They the end of the tranhere
sight of him safe distance, and
dared off in the other direction.
"stop" shouted Tom eve must get on the roof If we lie
Mhka mounted shoulders-he still
above his head.
stretched grip the hook slipped and fell
heavily ground striking Trofims head with his feet
Trofim angry, and shouted:
Now III climb your shoulders"
had himself badly, but time for tears
Trofim shoulders Tofm slipped
/ Mishkas head with his feet
to another pace-we can't here"
81 scraped my hand"
BLEEDING"
o it," |
whisted human Mshka'
and Trofm lying the roof of flat their bellies
With sigh of relief Trofm whispered nhang the dust Of the roof:
care still alive? Now we're :"
The swift Kghz wind Mishka and Trofim to
them the deserted When they looked at the
muks the roofs it seemed them
the air. above the EARTH the
would be able them No would
be able modest them Only Mishkas heart contracted pain
fuly-a mujk opposite him called out:
"Shes dead"
with head Mishka's feet, lay with wild
upward gazing
alien sky The sharp blue the rigid gaping mouth with its
heart
Trofm glanced up ndierently
mujiks with the Indifference heads immersed
in their affairs. One said
"Shell be thrown We unpleasant
| ness"
"How?" asked Mhka.
"Off the roof"
Mishka WINGED
of of he