Why should a miner buy coal?
He brings it home in his pockets.
Does a host go to someone else’s wedding
When he can invite guests of his own?

Goods in demand — they sell,
A kopeck pays for them,
You pour into a carafe, for it will not spill,
Unless of course it is a watering can.

The trembita blows out sound
To drive the silence off,
The reader does not write — he reads,
So there is something to read — I write.