The life & times of Taras Shevchenko (part 2)
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Isn't Touch Me, Not a Wheat?
My favorite poem by Shavchenko was written when he was imprisoned in St. Petersburg and he was waiting for the verdict. I have a very good friend. His name is Michael Badwell, you understand he's not Ukrainian. He abandoned Kiev before COVID and because of the present war. Now my cleaves in England, he's in what you call it condominium. It doesn't touch me, not a wheat. If I live in Ukraine, no, if men recall me, I'll forget lost as I am in foreign snow. Captive, the manhood I have grown in strange homes and by my role, and mount a weeping captive steel. All that is mine.
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