Who To Be / Кем Быть

Vladimir Mayakovsky  /   poems

WHO TO BE?

(Translated from Russian by Google translator)

My years are growing,
there will be seventeen.
Where to work for me then,
what to do?
The right employees –
joiners and carpenters!
Trigger furniture is tricky:
at first
       
we
         
take the log
and saw the boards
long and flat.

These boards
         
like this
clamps
        
table-workbench.
From work
         
saw
it was incandescent.
From under the file
            
sawdust.
Plane
       
in the hands –
work is different:
twigs, zakoryuki
planing plow.
Good shavings –
yellow toys.
What if
      
need a ball to us
round very,
on lathe
round sharpened.
Cooking a little
then the box,
        
then the leg.
Have done so much
chairs and tables!

Carpenter is good,
and the engineer –
            
better,
I would build a house went,
let them teach me ….

… … … … …

Having overturned the book,
Wrap yourself in your ear –
all works are good,
choose
       
the taste!