Blunderbuss Firozabad
Made of Pumpkin pie
Maxim Kryvtsov, poet, and his ginger cat.
Excerpt from the poem
"My Ginger Cat".
When he falls asleep
slowly stretches its front legs
he dreams of summer
dreams of an unscathed brick house
dreams of chickens
running around the yard
dreams of children
who treat him to meat pies
my helmet slips out of my hands
falls on the mud
the cat wakes up
squints his eyes
looks around carefully:
yes, they’re his people:
and falls asleep again.
-Ukrainian poet, Maxim Kryvtsov, author of "Poems from the Loophole", reenlisted with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and was killed 3 days ago in the war with Russia. His ginger cat died along with him.
Many Ukranian public figures in the arts have been killed in the war:
According to local authorities, 46-year-old Kerpatenko repeatedly refused to cooperate with the invaders until one day, Russian servicemen shot him through the closed door of his apartment."
Never cooperate.
" At the start of the full-scale invasion, Olha and her daughter evacuated to the U.S., but in April, they returned home, to the village of Uspenka, for several months, during which she planned to work on the book's second edition.
On June 27, she went to pick up a new phone from the nearest shopping mall — Kremenchuk's Amstor — right before a Russian Kh-22 cruise missile hit the building.
"Nobody could imagine that the shopping center would turn into a crematorium," Raisa said, recalling the deadly strike. Olha's body was identified by DNA testing and a piece of green-dyed hair."
" In 2021, after almost two decades at Ukraine's National Opera and Ballet Theater, award-winning ballet dancer Oleksandr Shapoval finished his career on stage and focused on teaching.
A year later, on the second day of Russia's full-scale invasion, Shapoval called his shocked wife from an enlistment office, saying he had joined the Territorial Defense Forces.
A Russian projectile landed next to his feet while he was trying to evacuate the bodies of fallen brothers-in-arms."
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Maksym Kryvtsov - Wikipedia
These Ukrainian artists, writers were killed by Russia’s war
"My worst fear is coming true: I'm inside a new Executed Renaissance. As in the 1930s, Ukrainian artists are killed, their manuscripts disappear, and their memory is erased," Ukrainian writer Viktoriia Amelina penned in the foreword to the published diary of another author, Volodymyr Vakulenko...
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