- Look, - I said satellite, - it Mirgorod! Now come running pig, grab paper, and we are saved!
- Mr Yesenin, - said Mr.. I wake up. - Come to the table! - then he said firmly in Russian. I'm stunned.
- Lift up your right hand and answer questions.
I began to answer, but the first question knocked me up:
- The god believe?
What was I to say? I looked at the satellite, he nodded to me, and I said,:
-Yes.
- What kind of recognize the power?
Still no easier. Confusedly, I began to speak, I'm a poet, and that in politics nothing about. We were reconciled to him, I remember, on people's power. Then he, without looking at me, He said:
- Repeat after me: "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I promise to speak the truth and do no evil. I promise in any political affairs not to participate ".
I repeated after him every word, then signed, and let us go. (After we learned, Duncan friends gave telegram Harding. He gave the order for easy poll to let me in the States.) I took with me a subscription to sing "The Internationale", as I did in Berlin.
Myrgorod! Myrgorod! pig saved!
NEW YORK
I headlong run away with the steam boat ladder ashore. Came from the pier on the Street, and immediately smelled the smell on me, some familiar smell. I began to remember: “Ah, Yes this… this is the… the same smell, which happens to be in the shops from the hardware trade ". Near the pier on the retention mats sitting or lying negros. We were met by a crowd of intrigued newspapers.
“…There is still an unresolved issue: moral or immoral to put a monument Edgar Poe. …” – And now there is a question: it is ethical to demolish historical monuments or not? And the customs of the blacks are still unbridled. 100 years have passed – nothing in America changes…