Read­ers world­wide are likely to be famil­iar with the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky—either as Russ­ian Futurism’s answer to Ital­ian Futurism’s F.T. Marinetti or as the writer of this lovely lyric, found on his April 14, 1930 sui­cide note:

So to say -
“the inci­dent dissolved”
the love boat
smashed against real­ity.
I’m through with life
and [we] should absolve
mutual hurts, grudges and anxieties.