LEV RUBINSTEIN'S COSMONAUTS

Outside the utopias
of Rousseau's cafe
a poet recounts
as in a dream sequence
a recycled Russian old story,
here are "the Cosnonauts"
a group of space aged
souls in verse who want
to write " freedom"
on graffiti city walls
who escape Bolothaya Square
nursing wounds
from bloody confrontations
as in the Decembrist's time
of the betrayed,exiled
who are still on our planet.