Poems Niederngasse
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Alex  Galper
Inventions

Silicon  breasts with bullet-proof lining 
To walk  around dangerous neighborhoods 
Lungs made  out of titanium 
To smoke  three packs a day 
An  ever-hard rubber dick 
To fuck  ugly supervisers 
And slide  up the corporate ladder 
Artificial  liver to drink liquor like a fish 
Jet-propelled rollerblades for citizens of Asia 
To roll  away from American cluster bombs 
Anatomically correct inflatable dolls 
With  television screens for faces 
Broadcasting never-ending Baseball World Series  
For single  men 
Blow-dryers  that work like vibrators 
For single  women 
Foam-rubber  nightingales and phosphorous stars 
For  romantic outings under the moon - 

Translated from Russian by
Mike
Magazinnik and Igor Satanovsky.
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Alex Galper:  I was born in Kiev, Ukraine `in 1971. In 1990, my family moved to New York, USA. I graduated from Brooklyn College majoring in Creative Writting in 1996. My poems and short stories have been appearing in Russian-language magazines since 2000. Translations into English were published in UK, USA, and Canada.  email:  Alex Galper