SUMMER BY THE RIVER
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It’s Sunday…
From the bridge to Trukhaniv Island (when looking from Volodymyr’s Hill, it will be on your left) all the way across to Margolin’s Dacha, the low left sandy shore is cluttered with bodies. Kyiv’s inhabitants are imbibing the sun’s energy to utilize it on Monday ‘for the revival of the national economy’.
This place is called a beach.
‘Lifesavers Beach’…
Thousands of people – men, women and children – lie on the sand and burn away their ‘nerves and exhaustion’ in the sun…
See those signs:
‘Women’s Beach’…
‘Children’s Beach’…
‘Men’s Beach’…
These are merely signs… No one takes any notice of them any more…
On the ‘women’s’ beach one can see a host of creatures, which no matter how short-sighted one may be, one could never mistake for women…
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