Mariengof

An old woman wearing a Tsarist service cap is trying to sell a ring with an emerald like a black cat’s eye ripped from its socket. An old general wearing a misty monocle and tattered mittens is selling a bottle of 1823 Madeira. The general’s face is as stupid and lifeless as a belly without a navel. A Jew with sagging cheeks is selling a white dress waistcoat and a flute. The flute has a sad air which suggests that it has never played anything but funeral march
Anatoly Mariengof – (Cynics).