{"id":16163,"date":"2026-03-15T00:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16163"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:06:57","slug":"poems-by-mykyta-ryzhykh-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16163","title":{"rendered":"poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Big letter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>snakes scratch feet<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>God wipes the dew from his eyes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>dawn of hunger<\/p>\n<p>remember the name eyelid<\/p>\n<p>rabbits hiding in the fire<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>my mother doesn\u2019t know<\/p>\n<p>what happens after death<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>im silent and i cant tell<\/p>\n<p>her about this ever anymore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Escape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A homeless man approached me near Time Squire<\/p>\n<p>A policeman shot his leg with his gaze<\/p>\n<p>Doctors refused to help him because he didn\u2019t have insurance (smiling)<\/p>\n<p>His leg didn\u2019t stop hurting<\/p>\n<p>Pigeons put in a private prison got tuberculosis and the cast-iron night burst<\/p>\n<p>I tried to break away from the homeless man<\/p>\n<p>(A similar man robbed me at the exit of a fast food restaurant a couple of years ago)<\/p>\n<p>Both parties refused to support both me and the homeless man<\/p>\n<p>(The old congressmen on TV screens continued to smile like silver mummies)<\/p>\n<p>We both melted in a cauldron of illusions<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have money to hide in a nightclub or restaurant<\/p>\n<p>And the homeless man continues to mentally haunt me<\/p>\n<p>The courts got stuck in the branches as if in the palms of their hands and<\/p>\n<p>Nothing happened<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The media reported freedom<\/p>\n<p>(Freedom from traffic rules?<\/p>\n<p>Freedom from gravity?)<\/p>\n<p>Children appropriated by schools and parents repeated the word freedom<\/p>\n<p>Catholic churches have lost their noses<\/p>\n<p>Foreign policy cemetery has grown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if I myself am actually a homeless person<\/p>\n<p>Who pesters passersby in the city center?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody cares<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s nightclub is closed for quarantine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big letter &nbsp; 1 snakes scratch feet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,77],"tags":[1845,1123,1686],"class_list":["post-16163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-88","category-english","tag-egophobia-88","tag-english","tag-mykyta-ryzhykh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-4cH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16164,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions\/16164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}