I need changes cause for years there have not been many. There’s no money, and no girls, and there can’t be any. I have filched for many years, and have not been lazy, - should have saved a heavy purse, but I drank like crazy. I’m as poor as a mouse, haven’t got a penny, got no friends and got no house, and I can’t have any. Somehow, I still get along playing cards and drinking. All I ever did was wrong, not just the beginning...
© Alec Vagapov. Translation, 1998